http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=346 hasta sus ejecutivos esta perdiendo Ex-Microsoft exec to grow Linux in South Africa Alastair Otter September 22 2004 Novell South Africa yesterday announced it has appointed ex-Microsoft employee Garry Hodgson as its OEM Business Development manager. Hodgson during his time at Microsoft was a key architect of the company's Windows 95 OEM strategy which established the company as the dominant player in the software market in South Africa. Hodgson was also the driver of Microsoft's programme to offer all schools in South Africa with free software. Hodgson left Microsoft 18 months to establish the Digital Hope Foundation with the idea of providing communities and schools with low-cost access to computing technology. Novell MD Stafford Masie said the company intends to deliver Linux to end users through a channel that Hodgson and his team are already in the process of developing. Masie said they intend to have pre-installed Linux PCs on the shelves of major retailers within the next month. And he said all of the key distributors and systems builders already had access to the SuSE Linux software and most had already signed up to distribute PCs with certified SuSE Linux installed. -- Diego Saravia [email protected]