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Myanmar Emerges from the Dark Ages of IT

Published by Robert Pogson July 6th, 2012 in technology. 1 Comment

I have often said that emerging markets are not locked in to Wintel. Here’s another example:

According to IDC Myanmar (aka Burma) spent just 5% of its IT budget on software.
Here’s a retailer selling tons of GNU/Linux PCs.

There is a connection between the two items. FLOSS costs much less than Wintel’s stuff. Look at some of those prices…

Intel Core i5-2410M Boot-Up Linux 4GB DDR3 640GB SATA $690
Intel Core i5-460M P6100, 2.00Ghz, 3MB L3 Cache Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 2GB DDR3 SDRAM $823

There’s no nonsense about recommending that other OS. They offer variety of OS, features and price. It’s no wonder there are far more job ads for GNU/Linux (49,500) than that other OS (2,850)…

- Robert Pogson

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1 Ray Jul 6th, 2012 at 4:27 pm

What about the dark ages in general? Human rights had prevailed

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My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

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