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Computerworld Australia: Vietnam’s Communist Party gets help from Intel

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 28, 2006

“The Vietnamese Communist Party’s decision to move its computer
systems to open-source software got a boost on Friday from Intel,
the world’s largest chip maker.

“Under terms of a memorandum of understanding signed on Friday,
Intel will help the Communist Party’s Central Committee for Science
and Education (CCSE) set up a laboratory, called OpenLab, for
testing and developing open-source software. Over the next three
years, the lab will oversee the installation of open-source
software on 27,000 PCs running Intel processors, the chip maker
said…”


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