How would your own education ministry roll out 380,000 PCs for a total cost of about a grand a piece? Down Venuzuela way, based on some hard experience, their Ministry of Education & Sport (MED) is boosting GNU among their technical and administrative staff, ramping up to run with GNU ...

The ministry believes these platforms have also helped it increase the efficiency and technical expertise of its employees as well as reducing vulnerability to Internet viruses.

MED officials believe it has saved up to 4 billion bolivares (US$2.1 million) this year by implementing open-source platforms in its data center servers...

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