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Vietnam Adopts Formal FOSS Master Plan by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2004-07-28 05:02 PM

March 8th, 2004, Hanoi – Vietnam has formally adopted a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) master plan. As announced by Dr. Hoang Le Minh, on March 2nd, 2004, Vietnam formally signed an extensive 5-year plan to encourage FOSS usage in Vietnam. Dr. Hoang Le Minh was speaking at the Asia Open Source Software Symposium organized by the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and the Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization (CICC) of Japan.

Intel helps Vietnam in open source development by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2005-05-19 07:20 PM

Vietnam and hardware giant Intel sign deal to set up an open source development laboratory.

Vietnam gives priority to open source software by Myk Gumapos — last modified 2007-04-25 12:43 PM

The government has approved the software industry development programme to 2010, in which priority will be given to the use of open source software in state-funded IT projects.

Sun shares its technology with Vietnam’s open source community by David Tremblay — last modified 2007-05-30 08:29 AM

VietNamNet Bridge – Sun Microsystems has opened the source codes of its operating systems JavaSE, NetBeans, Solaris and is providing them free of charge for the community of IT developers of Vietnam.

Party agencies to no longer use Microsoft Office by Myk Gumapos — last modified 2007-10-02 05:54 AM

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 20,000 computers used at Party agencies nationwide will replace Microsoft Office software with OpenOffice open source office software.