english.vietnamnet.vn — Accordingly, 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.
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peestandingupJan 8, 2009
Yeah, it's obvious to you & me, but not to the Linux fanboy who thinks this means something it doesn't.
adelieJan 8, 2009
Windows = Turn all your computers over to an American company with with you have no influence.Linux = Getting software you can own and control, and neither training nor support need be outsourced.Linux is expensive, as digital infrastructure is to implement and maintain, but a worthy investment that will actually benefit the Vietnamese people instead of some unreliable off-shore corporation in perpetuity.
adelieJan 8, 2009
Total cost of ownership is not free. There are big investments in switching, from training to IT staff installing and maintaining the systems. There is a lot more to digital infrastructure than the Operating System. You may have just called up Dell and now you have your machine that lets you email friends and play games, but that isn't the way large corporations or governments for that matter use computers. More and more jobs are shipping over seas, and Vietnam is bringing them home. Rather than paying an American company with which they have no influence do everything for them, and sending all that money away, instead they are making investments to be self sufficient, getting an OS they can actually own that will enable them to use their computers as tools, and improve upon it to the best of their ability with no artificial restrictions.If they are loyal to their country, they are going to do their best to keep their jobs and money at home. Sounds like a government that actually cares about its people, and understand the value of community reinvestment.
hoangtkJan 12, 2009
My university is going to switch to ubuntu in 2 month but we still using Windows and other microsoft paralelly.
phate8263Jan 13, 2009
Say what?<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_application_frameworks">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_applicati ...</a>I use Struts at work granted, but lots of big projects are coded in PHP, Python, Perl, ROR... etc.And if you wanna goto the darkside, you can probably use MONO...
srg13Jan 13, 2009
Please take a look at the comment above yours before you start making ignorant statements.