|
Title: Japanese Schools May Switch to Linux - Christopher Salzberg (gyaku), Ohmy News Post by: Tanya on May 10, 2007, 04:18:34 AM Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported late last week that the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to introduce the open-source operating system Linux for use within classrooms across the country in the near future. According to an investigation conducted last spring, there are currently over 400,000 computers at schools in Japan running on either Windows 98 or Windows Me, systems no longer supported by the software manufacturer Microsoft. The prohibitive cost of replacing these machines with newer models, as well as the rising price of proprietary software, prompted school teachers and administrators to propose the possibility of switching to open-source software as an affordable alternative.
Read More.. (http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=348867&rel_no=1&back_url) |