Government CIOs keen on open source software
Free and open source software continues to gain traction in the South African government with more than 90 percent of CIOs and IT managers in favour of using OSS in their departments. And Arno Webb, head of the State IT Agency’s (Sita) open source programme, says that while open source migrations have been slower and not as widespread as originally hoped, government is now firmly on a path to wider open source use. We speak to Webb to gauge government’s open source progress.
A couple of years ago the South African government was at the forefront of a growing awareness of open source software: ministers spoke out in favour of open source software and against software patents, the Cabinet approved an open source strategy and public service employees threw themselves behind open source in standards battles such as the ODF-OOXML process. In the past few months, however, things have been a lot quieter.
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