zdnet.com.au — Open source accounts for between 25 and 70 percent of all software in Australian, Chinese, Indian and Korean companies, according to a recent IDC survey. "If you want to roll out a low-cost infrastructure in India and China, open source is definitely the way to go," said the IDC analyst.
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modelcadetJul 11, 2007
Microsoft's recruitment strategies remind me of McDonalds. There should be a Ronald McMicrosoft.
noisebarJul 11, 2007
"Open source software takeup is BOOMING is Asia, Australia, India and Korea"Aren't India and Korea part of Asia?
geminitojanusJul 11, 2007
IDC is every bit as Fair and Balanced as Fox News, same goes for Forrester Research.
almostageekJul 11, 2007
Korea is so dependent on Microsoft it isn't even funny!! You need Windows to do almost everything in Korea. I think you can scratch Korea from the title.
srg13Jul 12, 2007
Well, photoshop costs more like $600, and it's a lot better than GIMP. And yes, I would buy the whole creative suite for Linux in an instant if it came out.
srg13Jul 12, 2007
"and since Microsoft released Office 2007, nothing ever will be able to compete against it again."What a naive statement. That's impossible, unless everyone in the world suddenly stopped developing office software
crazybuggerJul 13, 2007
You talk about freedom. They why is it mandatory to pay taxes?