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Your link does not support your conclusions.
"South African government (who ditched Microsoft some time ago) seem to be doing OK, savings of a minimum $87 million a year now they don't have to pay the convicted American monopolists in Redmond for their IT infrastructure."

South Africa has not ditched Microsoft as you stated. they merely published a policy where OSS gets equal considerration with proprietary solutions but leaves the decision up to the best value proposition.
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IBM benefits from MS' mistakes  Tim Patterson | 06/14/04
You got all that from this article?  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
Yes ShadeTree  Tim Patterson | 06/14/04
This is serious!  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
Microsoft could care less about the "centavos" as you say.  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
Shades of denial  whisperycat | 06/14/04
Your link does not support your conclusions.  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
They are in the proccess of migrating thousands of deskops to Linux.  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
RE: DonnieBoy  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
They are in the process, and many have done it successfully.  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
Please point me to a single link....  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
Here are three links, send in that application for infomation minister  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
Nice try, three useless links  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
Ok, give us the links to show they are having problems or anything  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
The links about problems are....  ShadeTree | 06/15/04
Man, that is the best you can come up with???  DonnieBoy | 06/15/04
What's 3rd World country?  voska | 06/14/04
Was there a coup that I missed?  Michael Kelly | 06/14/04
Definitely third world but a democracy none the less.  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
Shade..You know full well that there have been several MS articles ie  Laff | 06/14/04
Please go back to the original post....  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
And my point was/is Brazil alone is not a big deal, but Brazil is NOT alone  Laff | 06/14/04
Brazil IS a big deal. Microsoft must not give Linux a critical mass  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
dictatorship?  theo_durcan | 06/14/04
My apologies  ShadeTree | 06/14/04
is money even that imporant anymore?  ryusen | 06/14/04
A third-world country with a GDP of $1.376 trillion  Expatriate US Geek | 06/15/04
Taco..My God, That was brilliant!!!  Laff | 06/15/04
Taco!  ShadeTree | 06/15/04
Reccession (sic)  Expatriate US Geek | 06/15/04
The artical directly states that IBM is going after Microsoft  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
nothing to do with MS but cash savings  Kamakazii | 06/14/04
Actually, just the opposite, more bucks with Windows.  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
Nearer the truth, I think  IT_User | 06/14/04
Good news for customers, helping bring down prices through competition.  DonnieBoy | 06/14/04
IBM hides behind "open source"  starman_z | 06/15/04
IBM aint hidin' nowhere. IBM doesn't perform, there are other venders.  DonnieBoy | 06/15/04
Re: Be afraid of "free"  Linux_Developer | 06/16/04

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