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Story: Beijing dumps Microsoft
Posted by: Marc (Thursday 2 December 2004, 2:50 PM)
I wish the UK gov. would choose home-grown software vendors over Microsoft and the few other biggies (i.e. IBM, Orcale etc.).
A good IT industry would be an absolutly massive boost to the economy, yet rather than provide support for UK companies, the UK government often seems more willing to shovel large amounts of money overseas to software vendors providing what their marketing agents call 'ready-to-go' solutions which as we've heard about recently, in reality end up not so 'ready-to-go'.
Over the years, the bills for these software taxes (i.e. Microsoft's Windows and Office software tax, which MUST be paid every couple of years or face the myriad of security holes and technical bugs) add up to cost the UK (both the government and private companies) 100's of billions .
Surely this money could be a lot better spent developing a world-leading IT industry here.
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