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What a load of horsescheise. Jeez, this Kroker chap
certainly knows a lot about the topic. Not. Maybe doing some reseach would
help...
Linux has been cracking along in the Middle East
for years, in private and government sectors. Below are some examples...
they're IBM centric, because I was working for IBM's agency at the time these
were released, so I happen to know about them. There's a bunch more, though,
from any number of Linux solutions companies, as well as the globals (Oracle,
IBM, etc) including a number of initiatives by national governments as well as
large corporates. This one's quite funny..
"Tux goes to Egypt" is about
a Linux "installfest" in Cairo... about 1000 people rocked up, when the
organisers were hoping for 150-200.
But just slap "linux" into the ameinfo search, and
it will come back with LOADS of hits. And this is just from AMEinfo, which is
essentially a pool of corporate press releases. Check out ITP.net (Mideast
equivalent of SA's ITWeb (itweb.co.za) or UK's The Register (theregister.co.uk))
for more.
* Government of Bahrain - http://www.ameinfo.com/news/Detailed/29783.html -
building it's national e-gov infrastructure on Linux.
* Funky little story -- company called Zahid
Tractors (Saudi disty of cars, tractors and industrial machinery) tossed out
Windows for Linux http://www.ameinfo.com/news/Detailed/25913.html
IBM (which has quite a big software develoment
centre in Cairo) has done a lot of work to Arabise Linux -- developed various
libraries and then released them to the ME Linux communty...
("IBM today announced the availability of
Arabic support in core elements of Linux, the world's most famous open source
operating system...." ... www.ameinfo.com/news/Detailed/20052.html)
~R
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- lug_: Linux in the Middle East, Some Practical Tips Kiggundu Mukasa
- Roger Hislop
