23Mar/120
Hard-up Iceland plumps for cheaper open source
Iceland’s government is accelerating its move to open source at the expense of proprietary software from the likes of Microsoft and Oracle.
The government has launched a one-year migration project moving public institutions to open-source software and is working on a call for a tender to buy services based on free and open-source software.
The plan is for the project to create a common infrastructure for migration where public administrators will document the level of maturity of open-source alternatives to proprietary software used in their departments.
A group of unnamed specialists has been formed to monitor the project to prevent failures. Read more...