south africa

Microsoft officials announced at TechEd South Africa on August 6 that SQL Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing.

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 18th Nov 2006 18:23 UTC, submitted by editingwhiz South Africa native and current London resident Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical Ltd.

So could you ask, what is this "collaborative development", this new syntagm Microsoft is using all over the place?

Well, buried deep towards the very end of his post, Mr. Matusow gives us a definition ...

South Africa was the first, but not the last. Now Brazil has sent a letter protesting the adoption of OOXML as an ISO standard.

Parastal CSIR, South Africa’s national science and technology research organisation, is readying to switch most of its more than 2300 staff to using Ubuntu Linux as their default desktop.

Linux vendor Red Hat is to open an office in South Africa. Starting Monday Red Hat will have an SA-based country manager who will be responsible for the Southern Africa market on behalf of the company.

"On the same day that I read that the South Africa standards body has filed an official appeal against the approval of OOXML with ISO/IEC, I find Patrick Durusau has written the following outrageous words regarding Microsoft's announcement it will support ODF, and trust me when I tell you the opening is just a taste..."

Andy Updegrove has the news that South Africa has filed an official appeal, protesting the approval of OOXML, and the action means that OOXML is now in limbo until the appeal is decided.

I wonder if this is why Microsoft suddenly decided to support ODF, to avoid being shut out completely pending the appeal.

An "open source" Microsoft employee blog post about South Africa. Edifying. Really. In short, poor people are dense.

Authorities Standardization in Brazil, South Africa and Croatia approve ODF as the national standard. More info you can find:Brazil: http://homembit.com/2008/04/odf-is-now-a-brazilian-standard-nbr-isoiec-2... Africa: http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2365Croatia: http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7563/469