“A top treasury official yesterday ruled that new government
computers should run on Linux instead of Microsoft Windows, but IDC
Israel manager Gideon Lopez dismisses the whole thing as a
ploy.“Computerization czar Yitzhak Cohen also suggests handing out
freeware Open Office. ‘Don’t expect any revolutions,’ counsels
Lopez. ‘It smells more like a ploy in the negotiations Yitzhak
Cohen is holding with Microsoft over price.’ IDC is a global market
intelligence and advisory firm in the information technology and
communications fields.“Cohen, a senior deputy to the treasury’s accountant-general,
says government computer systems would save money by using Linux
open-code freeware rather than costly Windows operating
systems….”
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