Technology Trends

Japan’s government has issued a edict to all IT procurements to make Linux and open source software a priority starting July this year. They specifically mentioned that they would like to reduce their dependancy on Microsoft software.
Japan’s central government says it plans to use $1.25 trillion yen, or $10.4 billion, on IT the next year.

Nikkei.net story is that big IT vendors including Oracle, NEC, IBM, HP, Hitachi and Dell are now forming a consortium to develop and sell Linux software and computers to the Japan’s central government. However, Oracle has responded to their story with a claim that Oracle involvement with Linux consortium is not indicated.

It’s interesting to note that none of the corporations claimed by Nikkei.net story to be forming a Linux consortium are major Linux-vendors (like Novell, Red Hat, etc). It’s also interesting to note that most of these corporations are run and owned by foregin devils.

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