Japanese government looks to go open source

Oracle, NEC, IBM, HP, Hitachi and Dell are among 10 IT equipment and software vendors that are forming a consortium to develop and sell Linux-based servers and computers for the Japanese market. The government has said explicitly it wants to decrease its reliance on Microsoft as a server operating system platform. What is interesting about the initial news is the absence of any major Linux operating system distributor as part of the announcement.

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We're seeing that governments all over the world are shifting over to Open Source solutions. Of course, for them it is clear what advantages Open Standards and open implementations thereof hold. But not only governments, all organisations, from NGO's over SME's to large enterprises can benefit from the freedom and lower cost Free Software Licenses guarantee them. Don't hesitate to ask Zeropoint.IT about it!