SA FOSS awards launched
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| South Africa's first FOSS awards have been launched.
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IBM partners in scheme to reduce poverty
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| IBM has announced that it will collaborate with the Grameen Foundation to
| help microfinance institutions (MFIs) better serve the world's poor
| communities. Together they will expand the Grameen Foundation's open source
| microfinance software platform, Mifos.
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Related:
SA Government's OSS plans revealed
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| Migration of current systems is also planned. This will be done in a phased
| approach, beginning with applications such as replacing MS Office with Open
| Office or KOffice and replacing Internet Explorer with Firefox. This will in
| time lead up to the operating system, replacing Windows with a Linux
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| distribution. Migration to Apache for the running of government websites has
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| already occurred within a number of departments.
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