Brazil is on Fire at Robert Pogson

A press release from IDC about Brazil states:

SÃ£o Paulo, Brazil, June 13, 2008 – The Brazilian IT market continues with strong expansion. IDC predicts that the year 2008 will close with total spending on hardware, software, and services in Brazil at US$23 billion, nearly equal to the US$24 billion expected in the Spanish market. The report, entitled Brazil IT Spending by State 2008, demonstrates that among the emerging BRIC markets, Brazil will only be behind China (US$64 billion) in terms of total IT spending this year.

see Investment in Technology in Brazil Equals That of Spain, According to New IDC Study

Some of that will be spent on GNU/Linux which is hot in Brazil… and China. At a time when the US economy is sluggish this means many global corporations from the US will find more of their business off-shore. If they give customers what they want, it may well be systems running GNU/Linux. Good news.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.