Analysts: 1 Billion PCs in use by end of 2008
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| Forrester Research is set to release a report Monday titled,
| "Worldwide PC Adoption Forecast to 2015," saying that many of
| those next billion will be used by first-time PC users in
| emerging nations like Brazil, Russia, India and China. At
| least 775 million new PCs will be in use in those countries
| by 2015, according to Forrester.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9727337-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
These market see a lot of attraction in (and have policies for) Free
software.
Just a couple of days ago:
Open-source bites into Microsoft share in Bengal e-gov
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| Having tried out Microsoft for a few years, the West Bengal
| government's information technology department is now opting
| for open-source operating systems in new purchases of PCs for
| its ambitious e-governance programme.
|
| The state recently chose to install Lenovo PCs loaded with Red
| Hat Linux for an e-governance programme involving 277
| panchayats in Burdwan district.
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http://in.news.yahoo.com/070608/48/6gteu.html
Related:
Brazil Schoolchildren To Get $100 Laptop PCs
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| President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday received a version
| of a $100 laptop computer to be distributed nationwide, and 50 were
| expected to be tested in Brazilian schools beginning next week.
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http://www.tbo.com/news/nationworld/MGBL1G1JXUE.html
Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
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| "Microsoft's strategy of getting developing nations hooked on its
| software was clearly outlined by Bill Gates almost a decade ago," said
| Con Zymaris, CEO of long-standing open source firm Cybersource.
|
| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
|
| "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but
| people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though.
| As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
| They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
| collect sometime in the next decade."[1]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html
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