When a genre of software is estimated to account for 15 percent of the total revenue generated by a given sector of the IT industry and that total is $A3.5 billion, then it is time to sit up and take notice. Which is what the government of the Australian state of Queensland has done.
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lozz
6 weeks 4 days 11 hours 4 min ago
Poor cows
Why do I think that the QLD government is about to get invaded by a Golden Horde of Microsoft lobbyists, cajoling, pleading, bribing, threatening, lying, and distorting every truth previously known to mankind?
dave
6 weeks 4 days 9 hours 52 min ago
Because you are very cynical
...but most likely also very accurate. :)
lozz
6 weeks 3 days 17 hours 22 min ago
Cynical?
Yet another thing to blame M$ for.