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<p><div
class=ar> TOKYO, Nov 16 (Reuters) - The Japanese government will
consider replacing Microsoft Corp's (NasdaqNM:<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=msft&d=t">MSFT</a> - <a href=http://biz.yahoo.com/n/m/msft.html>News</a>) Windows, used in
much of its computer networks, with another operating system to
bolster security, a newspaper said on Saturday.<p><table align=left border=0 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4><tr><td><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td align=center><font face=arial size=-2>ADVERTISEMENT</font><br><!--ref="http://rd.yahoo.com/M=239727.2621216.4001410.1916040/D=fin/P=m1l22h6911000h00/S=95667316:LREC/A=1311614/R=0/*http://launch.yahoo.com/launchcast/" target=_blank !-- src="http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/la/launch/LAUNCHcast_listenatwork.gif" alt="" width="300" height="250" border="-- --></td> </tr> </table></td></tr></table> The safety of computer networks is under scrutiny as Prime
Minister Junichiro Koizumi's administration presses on towards
a long-held goal of "e-government", which would allow citizens
to deal with government agencies via the Internet.<p> Windows now serves at the operating system for the bulk of
servers and personal computers that are used for the Japanese
government's computer networks, the Asahi Shimbun said.<p> But the government is interested in studying the
possibility of adopting alternative operating systems,
particularly open source programmes such as Linux, the
newspaper said.<p> The advantage of open source programmes is that unlike
Microsoft's software products, they do not require licensing
fees and can be modified because their source codes are made
available for free. This makes it easier for system operators
to cope with any problems that could arise, the paper said.<p> The source, or blueprint, of a programme determines how it
works.<p> The Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and
Telecommunications will set up a panel of experts to study how
other countries are using open source operating systems as
early as the next fiscal year that starts next April, the paper
said.<p> Public Management ministry officials were not immediately
available for comment.<p> The review will take place after the ruling Liberal
Democratic Party's panel on promoting electronic government
asked the government in August to develop or introduce an
open-source programme for security reasons, the newspaper said.<p> Concerns about computer security were stoked in August,
when a leak of computer data for a computer network used by
Japan's military came to light.<p> The news of the data leak had come just a day after the
introduction of a mandatory ID system that keeps track of
personal data electronically, identifying every Japanese
citizen with an 11-digit number.<p> A number of municipalities have refused to implement the
system, fearing misuse by hackers.<p> Linux, essentially a free version of the proprietary Unix
operating system, has been making strong inroads into the
market for servers, the machines that manage networks of
computers.<p> This prompted Microsoft, which dominates the personal
computer software market with its Windows operating system but
is a relatively new entrant in the server market, to make an
exhaustive study of the threats posed by open source.
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