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===== [Enterprise IT] : A bid farewell to Singapore's open source advocate (http://www.zdnetasia.com/blog/btw/0,39056810,63000611,00.htm?scid=nl_z_ntnw) A bid farewell to Singapore's open source advocate By Eileen Yu Friday, September 21 2007 11:59 AM He wasn't one who went with the flow, and was widely regarded as an outspoken advocate of the open source movement in Singapore. Cheok Beng Teck, CIO of the country's Ministry of Defense (Mindef), chartered the way that saw the government body embrace--almost unabashedly--an open source strategy that few in the public sector would have been as comfortable adopting. Sadly, Cheok passed away last Sunday, apparently after suffering a heart attack whilst trekking on a mountain in China. Hearsay has it that Cheok recently retired, or was just about to retire, making his sudden demise all the more poignant. He was 52. Under Cheok's guidance, Mindef became synonymous with open source, whether it had intended to be or not, and an agency that was at the forefront of testing and adopting new technology. It was highly uncharacteristic for a government entity in Singapore to adopt a technology that--at the time--went against the grain and deemed to be somewhat controversial. More so, it was unusual for a civil servant to be so candid and unafraid to discuss his reasons for choosing one platform over another, much less one that was attracting much attention from the global and local IT community. [...] ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
