“Development charity ActionAid is developing plans to switch all
its desktop computers to Linux, as a way of avoiding the viruses
that continuously assault its Windows PCs.”
“The poverty relief organisation, which operates in 30
countries, is on the brink of the move after becoming increasing
fed up with the effort needed to deal with recent virus outbreaks,
and suffering infection from the Emmanuel bug.“
“Kerry Scott, IT director at Action Aid, said the effect of
viruses on the charity had pushed him to consider using Linux far
more seriously after initial reservations about the availability of
suitable applications, particularly word processing packages.”