Vietnam embracing open-source products (30 October 2003)

"We are trying step by step to eliminate Microsoft," said Nguyen Trung Quynh of Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology. Quynh and other government tech officials want Vietnam to be on the cutting edge of an international movement to embrace open-source software products that can be downloaded from the Internet for free and perform the same tasks as Microsoft Windows or Office." Read the full Article from Mercury News.

Australia behind India? (20 August 2003)

Linux already drives India's largest automobile company Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company (TELCO), the National Stock Exchange and the Council of Science Research. Read the full Article from AustralianIT.

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