| Vietnam mandates open source for gov't servers, desktops |
Jan. 07, 2009
Vietnam's minister of information and communications, Le Doan Hop, has reportedly asked national and local government IT workers to switch all servers to source software prior to June 30, 2009. Hop also reportedly mandated that all government workers use open source in their jobs prior to 2010.
The news was reported today by VietnamNet, which publishes Vietnamese news in English. The paper suggests Hop explicitly endorsed OpenOffice, Mozilla ThunderBird, Mozilla FireFox, and Unikey, a Vietnamese typing program.
Indirectly, the story suggests that a need for government workers to share documents more effectively prompted Hop's request. He reported asked agencies to "increase the number of documents and information" that they exchanged with the approved open source applications.
According to the story, Hop set timelines for the transition as follows:- By Jun. 30, 2009:
- All gov't servers must use open source software
- All staff must be trained in use of the software
- Half of staff must use the software proficiently
- By Dec. 31, 2009:
- 70 percent of national and state agencies must use open source desktop software
- 70 percent of IT staff must be trained to support it, and 40 percent able to use the software in their own work
- Dec. 31, 2010:
- All staff must use open source software in their jobs
Hop furthermore reportedly requested that PC vendors install open source software, rather than "cracked" commercial software, on the systems they sell. The original story can be found here.
-- Henry Kingman
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