[ILUG] Linux in the news

[Ivan Griffin]

Worse than that, we're #43 on a list of household bandwidth per country
http://www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/

Interestingly, a report from the US Info Tech & Innovation Foundation
(http://www.itif.org/files/roadtorecovery.pdf) suggesting that broadband 
stimulous creates almost 7:1 indirect/network-effect jobs to every job in 
direct employment...

As Finfacts Ireland told us in 2009, `Ireland has a target to be 
recognised as a "world class knowledge economy" in  just four years time 
-- it will not be met.' 
(http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1016733.shtml)



On Mon, 31 May 2010, Gary Pigott wrote:

> And Ireland, home of Eamonn Ryan's "knowledge economy" only has one of the
> top 500, with a two year old SGI Altix in Galway.
>
> Gary
>
> On 31 May 2010 15:03, Michael Kennedy <Info at kennedysoftware.ie> wrote:
>
>> WOW!!!!
>>
>> Thank you, Frank.
>>
>> Note: If viewing with Firefox, and with "NoScript" running, ensure that
>> "ALLOW ALL" is enabled on the page - not just the usual "Allow bbc.co.uk"
>> option. Otherwise the sub-menus (including "By OS"), and the graphics, will
>> not appear.
>>
>>  - Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> On 31/05/2010 14:51, Frank Duignan wrote:
>>
>>> Click the "OS" button
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10187248.stm
>>> f :)
>>>
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