Last update: 29/01/2007
Venezuela: Government migrati…
The Venezuelan government is expected to extend its deadline for a mass migration of government institutes to Open Source as the country faces a scarcity of experts. The South American country started ditching proprietary IT in 2005 when it passed "Directive 3.390", a law that requires the entire government to migrate to open source before December 2007. Local consultants now expect this year's deadline to be extended to the end of 2008.
The country's government comprises 27 ministries and more than 520 other public organisations, which must all migrate to an Open Source IT infrastructure…
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