Italian parliament bets house on SuSE Linux Two-year switch to begin in September By Gijs Hillenius: Thursday 12 July 2007 <snip> ITALY'S parliament is about to undertake Europe's largest governmental migration yet to open sauce. The IT department of the Italian parliament presented plans on Wednesday to begin migrating some 3500 desktop PCs, including those of its 630 MPs, away from Windows to SuSE Linux starting this September. The Camera dei deputati will also run SuSE on all of its two hundred servers. This makes it the second and largest parliament in Europe to choose open sauce. The French parliament, with 577 seats, voted last year to have open sauce installed on all of its 1145 PCs. France decided on Ubuntu this February and the migration in the Parliament should be underway. <snip> http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=40957 --- Judy Okite <judyokite@gmail.com> wrote:
CONGRATULATIONS to Strathmore! U're making opensource a reality in Kenya and in a core area of development. Way to go! Kind Regards,
On 7/13/07, Alex Gakuru <alex.gakuru@yahoo.com> wrote:
If government went open source what would we save?
[Business Daily] Strathmore adopts an open source software Written by Kui Kinyanjui 13-July-2007:
Strathmore University has become the first educational institution to adopt an open source software solution hoping to cut costs and prevent leakages....
Strathmore paid just Sh20 million for Kuali, saving over Sh50 million compared to a similar solution offered by brand names such as Microsoft or SAP.
<http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1916&Itemid=5810>
--- alice <alice@apc.org> wrote:
Thanks Walu and I asked an English man about the phrase you refer to below and this is what he had to say
"It's pigs might fly. <http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pig1.htm>
and it means something is rather unlikely"
I hope he is wrong and that most if not all of
our
ICT wishes will come true :-)
best alice
here's another gem from the past on the ICT bill...a summary of proceedings.
KICTANET ICT BILL ANALYSIS WORKSHOP HELD ON FRIDAY, 16TH JUNE 2006 AT THE JACARANDA HOTEL
walu.
...and with that I have officially ran down on ICT wishes. Probably not, one more, I finally wish that wishes were horses then we could all fly {-by the way I have never understood what the Englishman had in mind with this phrase, but i like the way it sounds ;-)}
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