Asian Tigers Plan to Challenge Windows Three North Asian countries are closer to signing a deal to co-develop an open-source operating system to replace Windows, according to the Japan news daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun. The agreement is likely to be announced this week by Japanese trade minister Takeo Hiranuma at an economic ministers' meeting in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, said the report, quoting unnamed sources. (ZAnetindia.com cited in Financial Express, Mumbai) o Linux Business Has Already Become A Large & Mature Segment. says IBM Asean Linux business manager Sandeep Menon. Quoted in Financial Express, Mumbai o 'SCO-IBM Lawsuit Won't Affect Linux Expansion In India' Report in Financial Express. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) | http://www.fredericknoronha.net Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org http://goalinks.pitas.com | http://joingoanet.shorturl.com http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- T: 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 M: 0 9822 122436 -------------------------------------------------------------------------