Zimbabwe should develop Opensource policy.

I have been doing a lot of comparisons of different opensource database offerings. CA made their Ingres database opensource! What does this all mean for mysql, with postgres and cloudscape all in the mix there is a real choice in databases to use for developing your products. I wish that this had all happened a couple of years ago it would have saved an old client of mine thousand of dollars compared to the proprietary solution they went with and are dealing with the impact of a lack of support from that Vendor in Southern Africa.

Opensource is REAL in the Third world. I can give an example of Microsoft scaling back their operations from Zimbabwe, so who do they think will fill the void created by that, huh? Linux and the rest of the good stuff of course. Only if the government there can have a real policy on Opensource being the system to be chosen over Microsoft for disinvesting in Zimbabwe!

Opensource in Africa