Brazil has mandated (too strong in my opinion) that 80% of govt. computers be moved from Windows to Linux. This mandate goes to show that technically Brazil believes strongly that Open Source can handle the job.
View link below.
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-06-13-009-26-OS-LL-PB
With a 2001 GDP of $800 billion and an economy more than twice as large as Russia's, almost
as large as China's and twice the size of India's, this is a big move for Linux.
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