Govt migrates 23 entities to open source platforms - Venezuela
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| Venezuela's government has migrated a total of 23 public institutions to open
| source platforms, the government said on its website.
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http://www.bnamericas.com/story.jsp?sector=1¬icia=411582&idioma=I
The entire country should eventually complete a migration to Linux, so it's
probably what is happening there quite fast.
Related:
Venezuela Launches Sale of "Bolivarian" Computers
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| The new computers will run the open-source Linux operating system
| and will first be used inside the government "missions" and state
| companies and institutions but eventually are expected to be sold
| across Venezuela and Latin America.
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http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2326
Ubuntu takes advantage
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| Well, I'm very proud to announce that another Venezuelan institution
| of the government, take our recommendation and then we deploy more of
| 700 HP PCs with Ubuntu and 150 IBM Laptops with Kubuntu.
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http://blog.blanco.net.ve/2007/03/ubuntu-takes-advantage.html
Venezuela - Stepping Forward With Debian
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| One of the shining examples has been the Venezuelan Patent
| Office, or Servicio Autonomo de Propiedad Intelectual(SAPI).
| In a country that does not recognise software patents, nor
| biological patents, the Debian Linux distribution has been
| used as the foundation stone for the system that will store
| information about both Venezuelan and Cuban patents and can
| store up to 9.5TB of data.
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http://www.localfoss.org/Venezuelan_FOSS_1
No rush for open source technology
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| Brazil, China, Norway and Venezuela have all recently changed to
| open source too, but mostly because of cost saving, not espionage.
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| The truth is you don't really own proprietary software, you just rent
| it. You can actually buy open source solutions, and they are yours to
| do with as you wish.
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http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/birminghampost/business/tm_headline=no-rush-for-open-source-technology&method=full&objectid=18683873&siteid=50002-name_page.html
http://tinyurl.com/26o5t6
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