Oracle, IBM, NEC to market Linux in Japan: Nikkei
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| Major information technology firms, including Oracle Corp., IBM Corp. and
| NEC Corp., will set up a consortium to sell servers and systems running
| the Linux operating system in Japan, a financial daily said on
| Thursday.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/02/AR2007050202938.html
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Schools across Japan may switch to Linux
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| Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported late last week that the
| Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to introduce
| the open-source operating system Linux for use within classrooms
| across the country in the near future.
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http://gyaku.jp/en/index.php?cmd=contentview&pid=000112
Microsoft foresees more suits in Japan
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| A legal battle between Microsoft and Japanese anti-monopoly authorities
| is likely to conclude next year and might lead to lawsuits or other
| patent infringement complaints against the U.S. software company,
| an executive said Thursday.
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| [...]
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| Microsoft has been slapped with hefty fines by European Union regulators,
| who have said Microsoft broke competition laws and abused its dominant
| market position.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/ap_on_hi_te/japan_microsoft
Open-source shift also occurring in our company.
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| According to press reports, the customs service of the government of Cuba
| is already using LINUX, the open-source operating system, and other Cuban
| government agencies also plan to shift to open-source software in the near
| future.
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| [...]
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| Of course we continued some Microsoft license agreements that we judged to
| be absolutely indispensable for responding to the needs of our customers,
| but on a company-wide basis, OpenOffice is now our office software
| standard. As a rule, our employees now use only freely-available
| open-source software for creating documents, spread-sheets, and
| presentation materials.
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http://www.ashisuto.co.jp/english/totten/papers/index.html
Open Source PBX Breakthrough
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| Leading Asterisk developer Digium Inc. has snagged a licensing
| deal with a subsidiary of Japanese telco giant NTT in what it
| sees as a major breakthrough for the open-source PBX system in
| that critical market.
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http://www.voip-news.com/news/digium-ntt-breakthroug-deal-040907/
Linux and Open Source Messaging Leader Scalix Expands Into Japan
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| Scalix Corporation, the leading provider of Linux and open
| source-based email, calendaring and messaging for enterprises,
| today announced its expansion into the Japanese market with the
| creation of Scalix Japan.
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http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20061106005061&newsLang=en
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