Tectonic: SA Tax Man Eyes Desktop Linux | Linux Today

Tectonic: SA Tax Man Eyes Desktop Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 27, 2006

“The South African Revenue Service (Sars) has issued a tender
for a Linux desktop solution for the tax-collecting government
department. While Sars admits that the challenge of moving to Linux
on the desktop is great, a successful proof of concept could see 14
000 desktops running Microsoft Windows XP SP2 migrated to
Linux.

“Currently Sars runs more than 700 approved applications, of
which there are seven ‘core tax’ applications…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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