[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“Mojalefa Moseki, State IT Agency (SITA) CIO, said government
would move to open standards systems as they were more secure than
off-the-shelf solutions. He said this would improve security as
well as reduce the significant costs associated with integrating
proprietary systems.“‘Information is the only resource that government really owns.
Consequently, government treats information security as being very
important.“‘The move to open source software (OSS) will not be achieved
overnight,’ he said, ‘but government is testing certain systems and
expects to achieve critical mass on OSS within the next 18 to 30
months…'”