IT-Director: Cuba and Venezuela--Unlikely Good Examples of Open Source Preference
Feb 21, 2007, 22:00 (2 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Lawrence Dietz)
"A recent headline in my local paper, the San Jose Mercury News,
attracted my attention: 'Cuba moving to ditch Microsoft, its
products'. While many would tend to chalk this up to anti-US
security paranoia, in my opinion this would be the wrong
conclusion.
"During 2006 I had the opportunity of meeting with many
government officials from around the world and uniformly they were
all interested in one thing: saving money on their software license
costs. While this was especially prevalent in Asia, this goal was
not unique to developing countries. Even the most developed of
nations such as Japan is aggressively exploring ways to make better
use of open source software and reduce their dependency on
Microsoft..."
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