Good news indeed, and thanks for the good article too. --- On Wed, 1/13/10, Issa Mahasneh <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Issa Mahasneh <[email protected]> Subject: [JoLUG-General] Jordan to Become the Open Source Hub of the Middle East To: "jolug" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 5:09 PM Hi! Good news from our govt and Ministry of ICT. After they refused to renew the agreement 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
