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MS will dump price close to 0 to win that tender!
by Kurt Pfeifle on Friday 09/Nov/2007, @14:47
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"Russian Ministry of Education and Ministry of Information Technology and Communications will soon announce a public tender for development and deployment of a GNU/Linux distribution for Russian schools. According to the government plans, this distribution will be installed on all the school computers in 65,000 schools in Russia (up to 675,000 computers). We will certainly take part in this tender."
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That's nice to know. However, your Big $$$ Opponent will pull all strings against you, and use their accumulated wealth to "sell" their software dirt-cheap, for pennies and cents, when it comes to that tender.
See what a ZDnet blog has to report: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1655
See what happened to Mandriva in Nigeria.
(Update: now one high official apparently is going to stop that turnaround. He's going to make sure he'll get some money too. This is what ComputerworldUK says:
[quote from http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/public-sector/news/index.cfm?newsid=6124
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"Nigeria's Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) wants to keep Mandriva Linux on the Classmate PCs", said an official who identified himself as the programme manager for USPF's Classmate PCs project.
"We are sticking with that platform," said the official, who would not give his name.
The organisation reserves the right to choose whichever platform is best for Nigerian students, which could also include Microsoft's software in the future, said the official."
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This sounds like he was overlooked when it came to the bribes, and now he makes sure that Microsoft will go make him an offer as well...) |
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