Brazilian cybercafes go with open source solutions

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Toneboy
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Brazilian cybercafes go with open source solutions

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Interesting stuff, especially the costs to Brazilian government and general maintenance costs. No agendas, no biases, no jealousies, just doing what works best for them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3250876.stm
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That's pretty cool and a fairly shrewd economic decision.

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I think German local government have decided to standardise on open source. Either that or they were considering it.

Microsoft must be getting quite worried. I hope.
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I doubt Microsoft is worried. As long as they control the ignorant-average computer user market in the USA they will keep the billions rolling in. =P
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I'm from Brasil and we have lotz of sites running php / open source stuff but unfortnantly IIS and ASP have a good slice of the marketing..

The Gov. is studing in use more open source stuff in orther to keep the cost low !
Micro$oft Licence$ and mantinance are too expensive .
And Windows do not serve for nothig :)
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