Business News Americas: IBM Selected to Assist Govt in OSS Migration--Venezuela

"The Venezuelan government has authorized IBM to decide which of its open source software (OSS) applications are suitable for pilot programs as part of the country's full-scale migration of public entities to open source, the state-run national IT center CNTI said in a statement.

"In January, the government issued an executive order requiring all public sector entities to transition their operating systems to OSS within two years..."

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