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OSS in One-Fifth of Japanese Businesses

Posted by Zonk on from the penguins-abroad dept.

WillAffleck writes "According to a recent Infoworld article, one-fifth of all Japanese businesses now use Open Source operating systems. From the article: 'By contrast, 33 percent of U.S. companies have adopted open-source operating systems in at least some of their servers, MIC said. Among the companies polled by the MIC, 66 percent said open-source operating systems have low initial costs, while 47.8 percent said the software has low operating costs '"

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  1. Servers... by advocate_one · · Score: 4, Insightful
    not desktops... so this could be as little as 1 machine per business...

    someone slap the editors with a cluestick please...

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