Japan To Adopt Open Software Standards

Japan has adopted a policy under which government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors whose products support internationally recognized open standards. Japan thus becomes the first country in Asia to embrace open software standards, the OpenDocument Format Alliance says in a press release. ODF managing director Marino Marcich is quoted: 'By giving preference to open software formats such as ODF, it is saying that information should be competitively priced, innovative, and easily available to the widest range of people, now and in the future. We hail Japan for its diligence and vision.'

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We covered this before. We're seeing governments all over the world are shifting over to Open Source solutions. Of course, for them it is clear what advantages Open Standards and open implementations thereof hold. But not only governments, all organisations, from NGO's over SME's to large enterprises can benefit from the freedom and lower cost Free Software Licenses guarantee them. Don't hesitate to ask Zeropoint.IT about it!