Venezuela's national IT institute CNTI expects to migrate 100% of its community IT centers (Infocenters) to open source software platforms before year-end, CNTI president Jorge Berrizbeitia told BNamericas.
The institute has to date installed 331 Infocenters across the country, and they are operated by 24 cooperatives. Migration to open source officially began on Monday March 6, but there are 10 centers with the platform already installed for the purposes of evaluation, Berrizbeitia said.
The executive has said in the past that the government can expect more than half of the country's public entities to be migrated to open source platforms by 2007, and in January the government issued an executive order requiring all public sector entities to transition their operating systems to open source within two years.
Berrizbeitia could not give an update on this schedule, but did say "migration depends on the realities of each institution, many of which have not completed the process but have been evaluating the available solutions and alternatives."
The CNTI recently signed IBM (NYSE: IBM) as a partner to assist in the creation of an open source laboratory, which will develop a technology platform suitable for the state as a whole.
The agreement has nothing to do with migration of the Infocenters, Berrizbeitia said, adding that the partnership with IBM has more to do with managing open source policies with respect to research and development, evaluation and certification of products, development of human resources and the provision of support and services to users.
Open source products created in Venezuela will also be open to evaluation by the community in general, as well as other institutions in the public and private sectors, he added.
Source: FOSS-PDI
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