Saturday, September 17, 2005

RED HERRING | IBM Pushes Open Borders (3 GOOD NEWS)

RED HERRING | IBM Pushes Open Borders: "In the United States, IBM and Red Hat, two of the highest-profile vendors behind the movement, announced a joint effort on Friday to certify developers in areas such as India, China, and Russia on the combination of IBM systems and Red Hat’s Linux enterprise software.



In Jakarta, Indonesia, the Ministry of Research and Technology said on Thursday that it would standardize on Java Desktop System on Linux. The announcement, which was made jointly with Sun Microsystems, aims to promote the general use of open-source systems across that country.



In Johannesburg, South Africa, the open-source movement found a powerful ally in the Minister of Science and Technology, Mosibudi Mangena, who on Thursday urged South Africa’s government departments to switch to open source."

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