IBM Africa are in town today (Monday 13th) at the Sheraton (SESE ROOM on the second floor).
Since they are the ones pushing all these Linux initiatives, If you get a chance please go and encourage them to push Linux in Uganda.
Kiggs
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 10:48, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote:
First Brazil
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/10/HNibmbrazil_1.html
Brazil has become the latest country this week to show its support for Linux. Following moves by the U.K. and Russia, the government of Brazil announced Friday that it has signed a letter of intent with IBM pledging to develop initiatives that will promote the use of Linux in the Latin American country....................
Next to the BBC for UK story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3181108.stm
The decision by the UK Government to pilot the use of open source software is likely to worry Microsoft, as technology analyst Bill Thompson explains.............
Russia not to be left out
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,85897,00.html
IBM and the Russian Ministry of Communications and Computerization have agreed to put together a Linux Competency Center in Moscow to help push greater use of the open-source operating system in Russia....................
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