| Is Linux breaking Microsoft's grip? [ZDNet] |
Nov. 04, 2002
The European Union and an African nonprofit educational organization have selected Linux for their systems reports Robert Lemos for ZDNet . . .
" . . . The European Union awarded on Thursday a $249,000 (250,000 euro) contract to U.K.-based system-integrator Netproject to study the feasibility of moving the information systems of several member countries' governments to the Linux operating system from Microsoft's Windows OS . . . "
"SchoolNet Namibia, an organization providing computing resources to that sparsely populated country, has turned down a Microsoft offer to put Windows systems in their schools and decided to stay with its Linux systems. In a very public letter , the organization lambasted Microsoft for a plan that would give the schools a $2,000 break on Office software but make them pay $9,000 for Windows XP . . . "
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