Techworld: South African Tax Office Goes Linux

[ Thanks to Jason Greenwood for this link. ]

"The open-source movement has received another boost with an announcement from the South African Revenue Service that is will migrate its SAP system onto Linux.

"SARS has awarded the server platform portion of its tender to Novell/SuSE Linux, which will run on Dell hardware in terms of a pre-existing hardware supply contract. The support and maintenance part of the tender has yet to be awarded, says SARS CIO, Ken Jarvis, but this will go to a local Novell partner..."

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