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."

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[djupedal]

Pay close attention before you go running off to the front office. The vendors are doing this - not the buyers/clients/users. In Japan, the vendors tell the buyers what and when they will buy. Say it with me: v e n d o r s

Just Plain Wrong

[oddmake]

Come to see What Oracle Japan said about this news(ja_JP)
They say "Though we are strong supporters of Linux,No such alliance are planned.Recent nikkei article is wrong"

Re:I for one

[Fordiman]

If you don't speak engrish, it's not directed at you.

Engrish sounds like that; I've heard enough new Japanese->English speakers talk to know that. Applying the same rules to spanglish (Scrubs does this constantly) or 'ebonics' ("I speak Jive") works exactly the same way.

Again, it comes down to: If you're offended, you're oversensitive. Get over yourself.

Re:Suffering for the master.

[CowTipperGore]

I guess that depends on your definition of Christian. Polls show that the population overwhelmingly identifies itself as Christian. The government overwhelming wants to be Christian, from the laws proposed and passed to the creed claimed by the individual politicians.

Unfortunately, Christianity has been plagued for almost 2,000 years by many of the same problems that Jesus had with Judaism. The downward spiral started once the personal creed of the man known as Jesus was developed in dozens of competing cults after his death. Your quote is but one of many that can be used to demonstrate the fallacy of so much of mainline Christianity. Don't forget that, like any righteous man should, Lot attempted to protect his guests by offering his two virgin daughters to the people of Sodom for their sexual gratification. And, after they escaped the city the daughters conceived by getting their father drunk and having sex with him.