[kictanet] ICT Bill - wish list, Day 4 of 4.

[Alex Gakuru]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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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