“Oracle, NEC, IBM, HP, Hitachi and Dell are among 10 IT equipment and software vendors that are forming a consortium to develop and sell Linux-based servers and computers for the Japanese market. The move by the vendors to collaborate on Linux in Japan comes from a edict from the country’s government to make Linux and open source a priority for all IT procurements, starting this July. The central government of Japan says it plans to spend around $1.25 trillion yen, or $10.4 billion, on IT over the next year,” Phil Hochmuth reports for Network World.
“The government has said explicitly it wants to decrease its reliance on Microsoft as a server operating system platform,” Hochmuth reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Anything that loosens Microsoft’s grip and helps the world move out of The Dark Ages of Personal Computing is a very good thing.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “RadDoc” for the heads up.]
Amen! Maybe someday they will move to Mac OS X.
Death to Windows.
off subject
is anyone elde having trouble getting on apple.com ?
Apple.com working fine for me.
Apple.com certainly feels snappier than usual.
MW: Hopefully the next headline on this (the article) subject: “Japanese government moves closer toward 21st Century, dumps Windows for Mac OS X.”
It’s a bird !
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It’s a plane !
No ! It’s a chair !
Wow. I just tried apple.com on my iBook and it really is faster. I’ve never seen it perform so well. The transitions are almost instantaneous. They sure have done something, Or else we are the only people in the world viewing their site.
I must have been trying to log on , during what ever change they did, couldnt load for about 10 minutes,
yes its snappy now
Yep, apple.com is MUCH faster. Wonder what they changed?
I am surprised that this hasn’t happened before, and more that they (Japanese) haven’t solved the problem on their own. The Japanese seem to be very proud people. I have a hard time seeing them as MS slaves. I remember talk of Sony making a Linux based OS, but I guess it bore no fruit.
One step closer to OS X.
One more nail !!
Its sad that The USA Government (and most others, or all others?) are tied to MS, hpoefully they will see the light,
Miso happy.
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Article title should read
“Japanese government looks to Zune Microsoft”
There, all better…..
Well, just because they’re not jumping to Apple doen’t make this bad news at all. It is another nail in MS’ coffin regardless. This is just the beginning.
Five years ago I was asked by a colleague if I thought Apple could overtake MS one day. I told him “MS did it to IBM, so why not?” He called me a stupid asshole that knew nothing about the technology industry.
He apologized to me last week. My how times have changed.
Why is this a big deal?
Linux is a major threat to Apple as it’s another competittor in the market place.
Now if the Japanese government switched to Mac’s that would be a good thing, but they are distancing themselves from American corporations. That includes Apple, which is more restrictive than Microsoft.
At least with M$ you can choose your hardware vendor, with Apple you cannot.
Mac OS X only runs legally on Apple hardware. If the Japanese buy Mac’s to run Windows then the Mac is basically another Windows box like a Dell.
Many governements of the world are going to Linux because they can control it, unlike Windows which and has left backdoors for US spies (and hackers) to get in.
It’s very unlikely they will switch to a more restrictive platform like Mac’s from the US.
So once the world gets used to Linux, it spells the end of Windows and Mac OS X.
Of course Apple doesn’t pay attention to the OS needs of the world anyway, they are just focused on selling hardware.
(AP) Newswire – May 13, 2007 2:30 ET
Apple announced today they have finally routed all traces of Microsoft servers from their massive, worldwide array.
“Seems vastly snappier,” said an anonymous Japanese source.
Holy Jumpin’ Hamachi, that’s freaking HUGE!
In a perfect world, the Japanese Government would adopt Mac OS X. Since it ain’t, if they just shifted to some variant of Linux and OpenOffice… teeth marks of Microsoft’s fat, flabby ass.
Macnuts.
One piece of advice, dont hold your breath.
“It’s very unlikely they will switch to a more restrictive platform like Mac’s from the US.”
Probably true, but don’t forget the extent to which Apple leverages Open Source. Most of it, with more to come in Leopard is easily portable between Macs and Linux which means it doesn’t really matter whether Governments use Macs exclusively or not.
The likelihood is more of a mixed platform ecosystem.
Just wait for ‘Spaces’ in Leopard to be the new BootCamp – two windows for MacOS X, one for 3D accelerated Windows and one for Linux.
MacNuts, the adoption of Linux is a good thing for Apple, since it will lead to greater adoption of open standards. OSX is also heavily dependent on open-source code, so the greater the uptake on that front, the more developers work on it, and the more advancements go back into the Mac.
Apple will never have a majority share of the OS market, but that isn’t the aim. The goal has to be to reach a point where Mac users are always considered. 15% is all it will take.
It’s obvious that MacNuts doesn’t understand or appreciate the differences and similarities between Linux and Mac OS X (BSD unix). Anything that will compile and run on a Linux box will compile and run under Mac’s BSD kernel with minor adjustments. Microsoft Windows is a completely foreign system.
“It’s very unlikely they will switch to a more restrictive platform like Mac’s from the US.”
More restrictive? How is a posix compliant variant of unix/Linux restrictive at all? OS X simply puts a wonderful graphic interface on top of a universally compatible, industrial grade, operating system. I compile and run unix applications on my Macs all the time. Most of the time I can find freeware or shareware versions that include a Mac graphic front end as well. Restrictive? What are you smoking?
“Since it ain’t, if they just shifted to some variant of Linux and OpenOffice… teeth marks of Microsoft’s fat, flabby ass.”
They ain’t even done that, the article mentions server operating systems, not desktop operating systems.
I’m with Holy Mackerel. Spaces is gonna work a treat with Parallels.