I never thought I would write about or like Linux as much as I do. If you search HelpMeRick.com for Linux or Ubuntu, you will get a plethora of information.

Today, I received an email from Bill in Kentucky, who is an avid listener of our web show. He sent me links to stories of major organizations from all over the world describing the exodus from Windows to Linux. Cost is definitely a factor, but the functionality, safety and stability of Linux also ranks very high for the switching organizations. Listed below are the articles for you to read for yourself....thanks Bill in KY!

I don't have a question, but rather a news story. Microsoft is in big trouble, not from the EU or from the latest Vista or Novell problem. This seems like mass defections from Windows to Linux.

• Just recently, The Philippines has adopted Linux to be in 23,000 of its school computers [1].  While 23,000 is a lot of computers that pales in comparison with the next story.
  
  
  
• Joining the mass defection to Linux is Russia, by 2009 [2] . Three of its regions will be all Linux and the rest will be all Linux by the following year. Thats a lot of school computers. "Linux is a piece of open source software, free online to anyone who wants it, and Russian schools are switching to it to save cash."

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• South America is picking up Linux [4]
• The French Police is moving to Linux [5]

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• The U.S. Army is moving to Linux [7]
  
• City of Munich moved to Linux and the Netherlands is moving to Linux. [8]

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• Australia moving to Open source [10]

• San Fransisco Bay Area schools move to Linux [11]

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• South Africa moving to Linux (Would save them $352 millions in license fees!) [13]
  
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