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Nov. 01, 2002
Open source is becoming the operating system of choice for a growing number of Australian organisations reports Helene Zampetakis for MIS magazine . . .
" . . . in the past 12 months, there’s been a sharp swing of sentiment in favour of open source. Around the world, governments have announced strategic policy shifts to accommodate more open source. Malaysia, Britain and Norway, for example, recently declared plans to adopt open source where appropriate. The US and the European Commissions have announced they are examining such a move . . . "
"In the private sector, more corporations have begun injecting Linux and other open source technologies into their environments. In the US, McDonald’s, Shell, Amazon.com, Chevron and Salomon Smith Barney all recently moved significant parts of their technology infrastructure across to Linux. Similar moves are afoot in Australia . . . "
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