Why Microsoft is Australia's Default Buy

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"In other words, the chances of desktop Linux appearing in the Australian public sector in numbers is close to zero.

"Con Zymaris, the chief executive of the Melbourne-based Cybersource, a company founded in 1991 to provide open source solutions, was speaking to iTWire soon after the deployment of Windows 7 netbooks by the Department of Education and Training in New South Wales.

"Zymaris, who these days is mostly involved with training people in the use of OpenOffice,org, has a long history of involvement in FOSS, as a developer and advocate."

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