Cuba sets to migrate to free, open-source software

HAVANA, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — Cuba has set a strategic goal in 2011 to migrate most of its computers to open-source software, a move designed to strengthen the country’s technological security and sovereignty.

Once the migration is fully implemented on the ground, the Cuban Nova Linux will be the operating system used in 90 percent of all working places, and Microsoft Office will be replaced by Open Office in all government institutions, Vice Minister of Information and Telecommunications Boris Moreno told Xinhua Tuesday.

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SAHANA | Free and Open Source Disaster Management System

Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system. It is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves.

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Cisco, Cloud Computing and Open Source Software

Cisco, Cloud Computing and Open Source Software

"We are interested in working a lot more with different open source communities as that’s where a lot of the cloud activity is happening," Lew Tucker, Cisco CTO for Cloud Computing

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