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Brazil throws Microsoft out of the windows.

Reports that Brazil has pledged to invest heavily in its own software industry in a bid to keep pace with the technological advance of the developed nations. Decision to support the open-source software movement; Plan to eliminate all Microsoft Windows operating systems from federal departments; Ser...

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Published in:New Internationalist no. 380; p. 7
Main Author: Macpherson, Sholto
Format: Article
Published: New Internationalist Jul2005
Subjects:
Computer software industry
Computer operating systems
Systems software
Computer software
Microsoft Corp.
Information technology
Brazil
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:Reports that Brazil has pledged to invest heavily in its own software industry in a bid to keep pace with the technological advance of the developed nations. Decision to support the open-source software movement; Plan to eliminate all Microsoft Windows operating systems from federal departments; Sergio Amadeu de Silveira, president of the Government's National Institute for Information Technology, as the driving force in the initiative.