Tuesday, 18. November 2003

Topic: COMPUTER - on November 18, 2003 at 10:01:34 PM CET

Backed by president, Brazil leans away from Microsoft

If he is to make good on his promise to improve life for the tens of millions of Brazilians who live in dire poverty, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva knows that one key challenge is to bridge a massive technology gap.

And if that means shunning Microsoft Corp software in South America's largest country, then so be it.

Silva's top technology officer wants to transform the land of samba and Carnival into a tech-savvy nation where everyone from schoolchildren to government bureaucrats uses open-source software instead of costly Windows products.

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