This was know a couple of months back, but the UK gov is trailing open source software with IBM.
This could be used in 6 areas of gov included the NHS.
Microsoft is not happy about this, the license deal it has with the gov is worth something extortionate like $6B a year!
The hope is the gov will either go for the much more economic open source solution or the worried european MS folk will be forced to try a desperately reduced license deal.
Full Version: UK gov trials open source
Anything that saves the country money must be investigated, I mean, we've got wars to finance here, space programs to bugger up... 
Personally, I think that will be the biggest impact open source has - not so much taking over from microsoft, but making ms cut their often extotionate licencing prices, simply by providing lower-priced competition and breaking the strangleghold. Unless...
"Dear Sir, your hip operation has been cancelled due to an incompatability between our software and the drivers for the machine that goes ping."
"How's his BP nurse?" "Er, not sure doctor, the monitor says KernelPanic, couldn't mount /usr/BPMon"....
Personally, I think that will be the biggest impact open source has - not so much taking over from microsoft, but making ms cut their often extotionate licencing prices, simply by providing lower-priced competition and breaking the strangleghold. Unless..."Dear Sir, your hip operation has been cancelled due to an incompatability between our software and the drivers for the machine that goes ping."
"How's his BP nurse?" "Er, not sure doctor, the monitor says KernelPanic, couldn't mount /usr/BPMon"....
no way that's going to work also
I don't even think this would be real?
I don't even think this would be real?
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