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Video: DET considers Linux on the desktop By Munir Kotadia, ZDNet Australia December 07, 2006 URL: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Video-DET-considers-Linux-on-the-desktop/0,130061733,339272567,00.htm
The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) may increase the penetration of Linux on its 165,000 desktop fleet because open source is "clearly an industry trend". In the fourth and final part of this interview, Tim Anderson, Information Services Director, claims that there are an increasing number of innovative open source solutions for the education sector and Linux on the desktop is being taken seriously. "We have to consider [open source] very seriously because it is clearly an industry trend. We need to have genuine competition in the marketplace for desktops ... a lot of innovative educational solutions are coming out of the open source area. "The possibility of running Linux-based desktop platforms is real for us," said Anderson. Other parts of this interview can be found here:
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