Tectonic: Sita OSS Tender Winners Cautiously Optimistic

"A cautious optimism is running through the open source industry after Sita awarded potentially South Africa's biggest open source deal last week.

"Eight companies--Business Connexion, Gijima, Choice Technologies, IBM, ImpiLinux, Novell, Obsidian Systems and Sourcecom--have been selected to be the suppliers of open source software and support services to the government and Sita over the next three years..."

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