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iTWeb: Standard Bank ‘Still Backs Open Source’

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 25, 2005

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Standard Bank says a more than R100 million [US$15.1/€12.5
million] licensing agreement with Microsoft does not mean the bank
no longer supports open source.

“Yesterday the bank announced it had signed a licensing
agreement with Microsoft SA for the upgrade of its 42 000 platforms
over the next three-and-a-half years, with Dimension Data being
appointed large account reseller to assist with the licensing and
administration of Microsoft products at Standard Bank…”


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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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