Vietnam Starts New Year with Open Source
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Vietnam will ring in the Tet New Year on January 26 this year, and 2009 will be the Year of the Buffalo. And for government servers, it appears that it will be the year of a few other animals as well, including the GNU and the Firefox.
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This, according to Vietnam.net Bridge, which reports that yesterday the Ministry of Information and Communication issued an instruction to the State Agencies of Vietnam to move rapidly to open source software. More specifically, “by June 30, 2009, 100% of servers of IT divisions of government agencies must be installed with open source software; 100% of staffs at these IT divisions must be trained in the use of these software products and at least 50% use them proficiently.” According to the article, the instruction is applicable to not only the IT departments of federal ministries and agencies, but also to those of provincial and municipal Departments of Information and Communications. By December 31, 70% of ministries and local agency servers as well. Full Story |
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