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China dictates purchase of local software
News Gao said that the new policy is meant to support the local software industry and protect state information security. In addition to commercial reasons for protecting local software, there are security concerns.
[August 18, 2003, 9:30]
China dictates purchase of local software
Talkback Too bloody right! Why would somebody want to trust their national security to American programers or at least american corporate intreasts. I may have many passionate feelings about Chinese society and human rights but at least they can get the...
[August 19, 2003, 17:22]
Windows lets in local languages
News Microsoft on Tuesday announced plans for a programme to help governments produce local language versions of key applications, giving the software giant a hedge against a growing international threat from open-source software.
[March 17, 2004, 7:20]
China poised to impose limits on overseas software
News China is about to issue rules about the extent to which government departments must favour local software, according to a report by The Financial Times. In August last year Gao Zhigang, an official with the Procurement Centre of the State Council...
[November 26, 2004, 12:35]
City turns away from Office
News Houston has begun to phase out Microsoft Office for its 13,000 city workers in favour of Web-based software from a local start-up. The Texas city signed a five-year, $9.5m (£5.8m) contract last year with Houston-based SimDesk Technologies to...
[January 27, 2003, 8:14]
Houston: we have a problem with Office
News Houston has begun to phase out Microsoft Office for its 13,000 city workers, in favor of Web-based software from a local start-up. The Texas city has signed a five-year, $9.5 million contract with Houston-based SimDesk Technologies to provide city...
[January 24, 2003, 14:50]
UK local government lags behind in open source
News There are more than twice as many French and German local authorities using open source software than there are UK authorities doing so, according to a survey. According to the preliminary results of a survey carried out by a Dutch University, only...
[January 20, 2005, 17:05]
RES marries virtual desktops with local apps
News RES Software has introduced a tool that lets people use locally running applications and virtual desktop environments in tandem. Although there are point solutions available to help specific applications run in a virtual desktop environment, the...
[August 27, 2009, 11:41]
Socitm aims to promote IT professionalism
News The Society of IT Management is piloting a generic software package aimed at improving IT professionalism across local government. The report also proposed that the Aspire software package, which supports the SFIA, should be developed by Socitm and...
[January 7, 2008, 8:29]
OpenOffice.org development boosted by Arab and Israeli collaboration
News Similarities between the Arabic and Hebrew languages have enabled groups of Israeli and Arab developers to assist each other in solving common problems developing local versions of OpenOffice.org software.
[October 14, 2004, 18:00]
Local authorities keen on open source
News Cost, security and dissatisfaction with Microsoft will drive almost two-thirds of local authorities to increase their use of open source software over the next three years, according to new research. Justin Holliday, assistant chief executive at...
[May 10, 2005, 15:50]
Indiana cancels India outsourcing deal
News Citing the need to protect local businesses, the US state of Indiana terminated a software contract it had awarded to an Indian company -- a move indicative of growing opposition to offshore outsourcing.
[November 27, 2003, 9:00]
Why governments really choose open source
News To date at least 160 international local and national governments have deployed open source software and over $2bn has been spent on the Linux open source operating system, according to figures from Linux vendor Red Hat.
[November 17, 2005, 15:40]
SAP opens research labs in China and India
News German business-software giant SAP has officially opened research and development centres in Shanghai, China and Bangalore, India, bringing the total number of such labs worldwide to eight. SAP has run a software centre in the country for over...
[December 12, 2003, 14:15]
Radical Idea: Charge Vendors for Software Deployed in Schools
Blog Comment To move from Local Education Authority (LEA) sponsored and supported propitiatory School Management Software in a small to medium sized school would be cost-prohibitive. As far as Open Source for curriculum software, the training and ongoing...
[June 1, 2009, 10:38]
Radical Idea: Charge Vendors for Software Deployed in Schools
Blog Comment To move from Local Education Authority (LEA) sponsored and supported propitiatory School Management Software in a small to medium sized school would be cost-prohibitive. As far as Open Source for curriculum software, the training and ongoing...
[May 31, 2009, 12:05]
The Greening of SaaS
White Papers Are unbudgeted software and hardware costs hurting your bottom line? Consider switching to Software as a Service (SaaS), and replace unexpected outlays with fixed, predictable expenses. SaaS reduces or eliminates costs related to installing...
[September 9, 2009, 1:23]
gStorage
Downloads (The touchUI devices, such as 5800 XpressMusic, are supported also.This software is a file management tool, which can be used to manager your local files in a mobile phone and network files in a remote storage space.
[November 4, 2008, 6:00]
Taiwan schools to enjoy free StarOffice 6.0
News National Cheng Kung University is the first of the 230 local universities to receive the free office productivity software, dubbed StarSuite 6.0 in Taiwan, from Sun. See the Software News Section for the latest headlines on everything from peer to...
[May 31, 2002, 10:00]
United Nations and Microsoft team up in Africa
News Under the agreement, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation will support the software maker's efforts to expand the number of languages featured in its Local Language Program.
[November 17, 2004, 17:15]
