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In today's IT Blogwatch: the curious story of Nigeria's indecision about school PCs: first it was Mandriva Linux, then it was Windows XP, now it's Mandriva again! Not to mention Cary Grant vs. Google Earth...Jeremy Kirk boldly reports: [You're fired -Ed.]Microsoft Corp. may not have beaten French Linux vendor Mandriva in a large deal to supply Nigerian elementary schools with laptop computers and software after all. Mandriva had closed a deal in mid-August to provide a customized Linux operating system and support for 17,000 Intel Classmate PCs intended for Nigerian schools, but found out last week that the company deploying the computers for the government, Technology Support Center (TSC), planned to wipe the computers' disks and install Windows XP instead. Now, however, a government agency funding 11,000 of the PCs has overruled the supplier.
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