Malaysia moves to OSS - Will it help the economy?
Posted on September 30th, 2008
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With the OSCC MAMPU success of the MyGOSSCON 2007, lots of government OSS projects have started to be highlighted. This year's MyGOSSCON 08, will be held on 5-6 Nov 2008 at the PICC, Putrajaya.
Economy and jobs for OSS
Will all this move to OSS help the economy? Malaysia is a country surrounded by Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand and depends a lot of its revenue from trades. Malaysia have a modest broadband availability and quality of service with a largely open Internet policy.
In regards to any ICT procurements, the cost can be reduced by;
Economy and jobs for OSS
Will all this move to OSS help the economy? Malaysia is a country surrounded by Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand and depends a lot of its revenue from trades. Malaysia have a modest broadband availability and quality of service with a largely open Internet policy.
In regards to any ICT procurements, the cost can be reduced by;
- Preference of alternative/cheaper software
- Preference of software that reduces maintenance and security
- Lost opportunity of exposure to building enterprise/advanced applications
- Preference of foreign systems to local ICT solutions when making procurement...
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