Open Source Opens Doors
Malaysia’s CIOs are into open source software, and many see it as a way of cutting costs and upping choice.
At the table were: Gerald Wee, Executive Editor, CIO Asia (moderator); Shane Owenby, Regional Manager, Asean, Red Hat Asia Pacific; Mohd Hashimi bin Mohd Nawi, Systems Analyst, Attorney General’s Chambers of Malaysia; Fork Kiang Seong, Assistant Vice President, Application Services—IS, Malayan Banking Bhd; Stan Singh, Senior Vice President and Group CIO, MUI dotCom Sdn Bhd; Suresh M Kumar, Senior Manager, Systems, NorthPort (Malaysia) Bhd; Azbir Abu Bakar, Head, IS Department, Padiberas Nasional Bhd; Zulkepli bin Haji Hamid, Vice President, IT Division, Time dotCom Bhd; and David Asirratham, IT Director, Multimedia University.
You can read the highlights of the panel discussion at CIO Asia.