State of the Nation: South Africa's Open Source Software Market
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| "Open Source Software has the potential to eradicate a number of issues
| associated the skills shortage problem in South Africa, related specifically
| to ICT," notes Frost and Sullivan Research Analyst Lindsey Mc Donald. "Having
| the ability to learn in one's own language for instance, will be of great
| benefit to many young South Africans."
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The myth is that free software makes fewer jobs, but with localisations,
customisation and so forth you get better products and even more jobs.
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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