Comments on: United Nations Joins Open Source http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/01/25/united-nations-joins-open-source/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:54:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: mrsmiley http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/01/25/united-nations-joins-open-source/#comment-5054 mrsmiley Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 #comment-5054 <p>Nice to see open source finally being targeted at people/regions that need solutions that currently have nothing, rather than people/organisations that have closed sourced solutions and should change because of the benefits.</p> <p>Remains to be seen how effective it will be though. Having to train regions of people in first using computers, then getting them used to linux/open source combinations will be a very daunting task.</p> <p>That said, this is why some organisations like to hire people straight out of university. That way they dont inherit any bad habits learnt at other organisations. If people are learning computers from scratch, and start with the so called "hard" systems first, its the only thing they'll know from the start, hence would be off to a very good start (if the initiative works that is)</p> Nice to see open source finally being targeted at people/regions that need solutions that currently have nothing, rather than people/organisations that have closed sourced solutions and should change because of the benefits.

Remains to be seen how effective it will be though. Having to train regions of people in first using computers, then getting them used to linux/open source combinations will be a very daunting task.

That said, this is why some organisations like to hire people straight out of university. That way they dont inherit any bad habits learnt at other organisations. If people are learning computers from scratch, and start with the so called “hard” systems first, its the only thing they’ll know from the start, hence would be off to a very good start (if the initiative works that is)

]]> By: bdogg http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/01/25/united-nations-joins-open-source/#comment-5055 bdogg Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 #comment-5055 <p>Heres an article about how Brazil is scrapping windows for opensource and trying to get other countries to follow. Is this the down fall of the windows monopoly? </p> <p>http://www.techworthy.com/Blog/Brazil-Stays-Sexy-as-Government-Switches-to-Open-Source-Software.htm</p> Heres an article about how Brazil is scrapping windows for opensource and trying to get other countries to follow. Is this the down fall of the windows monopoly?

http://www.techworthy.com/Blog/Brazil-Stays-Sexy-as-Government-Switches-to-Open-Source-Software.htm

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