The article on yesterday's Independent mentions both open standards, and open source.
"The alliance with Oracle is consistent with the government's policy to expand the e-Government framework to open source technologies." "The current set up is also sufficiently robust for future potential expansion into open source technology stack." "Our technology is fully compliant with the EU standards since it is based on open standards..." Keith On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 07:19 +0100, James Attard wrote: > I think Ramon is right, having attended to some Oracle seminars here > in Malta regarding the introduction of Oracle in e-gov > infrastructure. > > On 1/27/06, Ramon Casha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although Oracle is primarily based on selling proprietary > software, they also > have contributed some stuff to OSS, including the Linux > kernel. Only recently > they just donated their ADF (Oracle's implementation of Java > Server Faces) to > the Apache foundation. > > Having said that, it could be that they mixed up open source > with open > standards. I'm contacting Kevin (Oracle Malta) to find out > more. > > Ramon > > On Thursday 26 January 2006 11:54, Andrew Cilia wrote: > > > http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=212673&hilite=accord > > > > This must be a typo. I think they meant open systems. I know > of no > > government policy to expand the e-Government framework to > open source > > technologies and Oracle (as much as IBM and all the rest) > does not pop > > into mind as one of the potential suppliers of such > software. > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > -- > http://www.jamesattard.com > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list -- Keith Vassallo Registered Linux User #290991 http://www.keithvassallo.net
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