On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 09:33:34PM -0700, Lyndon Tiu wrote: > on the server? > In the big corporations?
It's beginning to see very wide deployment indeed, especially on the server side. Hewlett-Packard just recently made an announcement that some more than half of the sales of their Proliant server line here in the Philippines were purchased to run Linux, and I have been personally been involved in a fair number of such deployments for major corporations whose names I'm not at liberty to disclose. Business is growing for us, so I guess Linux usage must also be growing, at least on the server side. > How about piracy, I know ten years ago, almost everyone I know has a PC with > pirated Windows and other software on it. Is this still prevalent? > Yes, unfortunately. There's a lot of inertia in this case, and because it doesn't make economic sense there's no blunting it. All of the high-profile raids on unauthorized software shops in Greenhills and elsewhere have done nothing to reduce it. The prices of normal proprietary software easily cost several times more than the hardware on which they run, and that's definitely way beyond what the market will bear in this country. If the BSA really got serious about cracking down on such unauthorized copying here it would drive everyone to use Linux and OpenOffice very quickly methinks. > Is the government doing anything that favors Open Source? > Not really. There are pockets here and there, but mostly, thanks to the carrots and FUD MS has been known to dangle in front of governments that have announced that they are attempting to migrate to Linux or some other non-Microsoft platform, nothing ever happens. Our government is still as gullible (or more precisely *WILLFULLY* gullible) as ever in this respect. > Is Microsoft in the Philippines actively fighting Linux's spread? > With varying degrees of success... -- dido "When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint; but when I asked why people are poor, they called me a communist." -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
