Failed New Zealand Deal With Microsoft Good News for Linux?
by Wyatt WalterMicrosoft’s recently failed contract renewal with the country of New Zealand is being hailed by blogs and news outlets as a big opportunity for other open source solutions to move in. I’m not quite ready to break out the champagne and streamers. Why would the country walk away from a deal? I don’t understand why the news outlets never mentioned this.. All we have to do is open up the front page of any major news site to see articles about the horrible state of our world’s economy. Of course they walked away from the deal. You don’t get steep licensing discounts from a vendor by jumping all over the first offer. It’s also car shopping 101. But you can just walk away for show. You have to walk away and mean it. Now, I’m not saying that New Zealand is not open to open source alternatives, but so far we haven’t been given evidence that they are moving in the open source direction. I guess only time will tell, but let’s not put the cart before the open source horse.
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May 28th, 2009
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