[ Thanks to Gerald
Neale for this link. ]
“Computer giant Fujitsu Ltd said on Wednesday it, IBM Japan Ltd
and Oki Electric Industry Co have won a 188 million yen ($1.59
million) contract to design a Japanese government payroll computer
system using Linux.“The adoption of the Linux open-source operating system, which
can be obtained for free and copied or modified, would be a blow to
Microsoft Corp, which wanted the government to use its Windows
system for the backbone computer…”