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User buy-in and clear decisions key to OSS migration
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| User resistance to change remains one the major obstacles to overcome in any
| successful open source migration. This is according to Michael Bohn, Sun
| Microsystem’s senior consultant for office migration, who was speaking to the
| Gauteng Linux Users Group (GLUG) this week.
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| Hamburg-based Bohn was in South Africa to, among other things, meet with the
| South African government around its open source migration strategy.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=4811
Recent:
State IT Agency to host FOSS vendor day
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| The SA State IT Agency’s Free and Open Source Programme Office (FPO) is to
| host a workshop this coming Friday in which free and open source software
| (FOSS) vendors will have a chance to demonstrate their products to government
| officials. The day-long workshop will include representatives from companies
| that were selected, in a 2005 tender process, as government-approved open
| source vendors.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=4791
Brazil explores SA open source push - ITWeb
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| Brazilian ICT companies are keen to capitalise on the South African
| government's latest e-government push.
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http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/business/2008/0806111038.asp%3FO%3DFPTOP%26S%3DIT%2520in%2520government%26A%3DITG&cid=0&ei=neFPSIHnLYa2xAH1hcmlCA&usg=AFQjCNEin3h_kSV-VxAK7DAthBrbgJUZQg
CSIR to switch 2300 users to Ubuntu Linux
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| Parastal CSIR, South Africa’s national science and technology research
| organisation, is readying to switch most of its more than 2300 staff to using
| Ubuntu Linux as their default desktop
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2448
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