Linux taking off - and being taken off

[Carrie]

source:The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/33035.html)

More than two dozen nations are considering proposals to promote or require the use of Linux in government offices" according to Erwin Gillich, deputy head of the city of Vienna's information technology unit, which is likely to choose Linux over Windows on 15,000 desktops. So, who are these nations, asks Robin Bloor of Bloor Research.


Read More Here (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/33035.html)

[Asterix]

Really nice story..

Microsoft keeps cribbing that Government shld never set rules or standards that favour one mode over another.. But i would say it is nice thing why??

Im an Indian and one thing unique to India is that we have largest no. of languages to be spoken by any country and they are all indigenious.. Currently M$ doesnt see enough $$ to develop local version of OS but with Open Source adaption slowly ppl here will have incentive to translate to other languages to widen the reach of the computers...