Interesting, some news you do not hear everyday. 2010/1/13 Issa Mahasneh <[email protected]>
> Hi! > > Good news from our govt and Ministry of ICT. After they refused to renew > the agreement <http://jordanopensource.org/blog/minister-said-no> between > Microsoft and declared they do not need any new software from Microsoft, > especially Windows 7, a new agreement "to more open source adoption" has > been made public today. > > The agreement is between the Ministry and Ingres, one open source DBMS > companies with more than 10000 customers worldwide. Ingres will train > employees and offer open source software to public administration. They will > also open an open source lab in one of the major universities. > > The ministry will promote open source adoption in all the government > departments and will take open source software into consideration in any > future software purchase. > > More: > http://jordanopensource.org/article/jordan-become-open-source-hub-middle-east > > -- > ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### > http://Jolug.org/ > http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug > > ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam > http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo > > ### Ojuba Linux ### > http://ojuba.org/ > > ### Jordan PHP ### > http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP >
-- ### Jordan Linux Users Group ### http://Jolug.org/ http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug ### Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team ### https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanTeam http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-jo ### Ojuba Linux ### http://ojuba.org/ ### Jordan PHP ### http://groups.google.com/group/JoPHP
