Lessons from Brazil

Brazil has decided to force all its public sector into open source. Microsoft reacts by offering it a $40 version of windows. Brazil not impressed:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39196592,00.htm

http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1081255,00.html

And, while we're at it, the Guardian compares MS office and OpenOffice:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/businesssolutions/story/0,,1471339,00.html