Open Tuesday hears government OSS plans
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| Open Tuesday last night had Arno Webb, the programme manager for SITA's open
| source migration of government departments, talking about both the progress
| so far and the plans ahead for the mammoth task of migrating all government
| departments to open source.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1714
Also in South Africa:
Asterisk speeds up call centre response
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| "This project is a great example of open-source fulfilling its promise of
| providing an enterprise solution with better flexibility than proprietary
| solutions can offer.”
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1716
South Africa takes the Free software route to a Linux migration. It's too late
for Microsoft to change this (unless a retired Bill Gates starts dropping
funds/'charity' on South African politicians).
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
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^
| already occurred within a number of departments.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1684
SA Government punts Firefox
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| The South African Department of Communications (DoC) is actively
| punting the popular Firefox web browser. The SA Government has
| already embraced open source software, but it seems to be pushing
| the anti-Microsoft envelope even further.
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http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/549.html
Education dept eyes stronger free software policy
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| South Africa's education department may re-look at its policies
| regarding free and open source software and pursue a stronger open
| source strategy in light of the government's free software strategy
| adopted in February this year.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1460
Minister champions open source endeavour
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| Nenna Nwakanma, the chairman of the FOSSFA council executive committee,
| explained that the foundation has a basic strategy plan running up until
| 2009. The plan encompasses 12 themes, four of which were to be focused on
| over the next six months.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1711
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