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Japanese Government to Move to OSS
An anonymous reader writes "Linuxworld has up an article on the Japanese government's plan to reduce its reliance on a single IT vendor by moving to open source software. 'Oracle, NEC, IBM, HP, Hitachi and Dell are among 10 IT equipment and software vendors that are forming a consortium to develop and sell Linux-based servers and computers for the Japanese market. The move by the vendors to collaborate on Linux in Japan comes from a edict from the country's government to make Linux and open source a priority for all IT procurements, starting this July.' The government has said explicitly it wants to decrease its reliance on Microsoft as a server operating system platform."
I for one am welcomming our new rinux lunning overlords. Banzai!!!
Will code for new sig.
The beginning of the end, this is.
But the Empire will wake up, and strike back. Unclear the future is.
Microsoft need to respond to the market and the market is screaming "no vendor lock-in". Instead Ballmer threatens to sue governments for unspecified "IP" violations and then does a stupid patent deal with a linux vendor.
I don't think we give Microsoft (esp. Ballmer) the credit they deserve. However unintentional it may be, they're the greatest salesmen F/OSS ever had.
If monkey boy keeps this up the open source community should do the right thing; donate chairs.
The japanese governement is, for now, waiting for the release of Ubuntu Tantalizing Tentacles.
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
This decision may become even a new theme for the comic books (manga) that they read on their way to work, so the people will learn quickly about the new status quo.
Great. It'll be the OS-tan version of (Infinite) Crisis on (Infinite Worlds|the Civil War|Marvel).
I can aleady see it - The four well-known MacOS-tans (OS 9, Panther, Tiger, Leopard) team up with the eleven well-known Linux-tans (Fedora, RHEL, SUSE, Slackware, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Knoppix, Arch, Debian, Mandriva, Linspire) and engage in bloody warfare (involving random sex) against the Windows-tans. Written by Toshio Maeda (thus the random sex).
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
They can still do like Sun and call their version of GNOME "Japan Ruby Desktop".
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
Well, hey, at least they sold those 200 Vista licenses in China, right?
No, if they want to keep hold of their costumers they should lower the price of threads and fabric. As for patches (critical or otherwise)... those are so last season!
Nobody else has this sig.