Cape Town Slashes ICT budget

[Cape Town | ITWeb, 28 July 2006] – Sharp cuts in the City of Cape Town’s IT budget will seriously hamper its ability to retain staff, perform routine maintenance and threaten its place as the country’s most ICT-centric city, says CIO Nirvesh Sooful. According to Sooful, the 2007 capital budget was slashed from a requested R75 million to R30 million, in what he describes as an Ã¢â‚¬Å“arbitrary mannerÃ¢â‚¬?.

Great! You do know what that means for us? This will encourage the powers that be to look at FOSS business soltuions before prorietary ~~solutuons~~ licenses 🙂 There’s gonna be so much less SAPping of the budget. Great oppurtunities lie ahead for everyone. Read the full Cape Town slashes ICT budget article.

7 Responses to "Cape Town Slashes ICT budget"

IMM 2.0 says:
28 July 2006 at 14:50
I like the way you think! Opportunity in adversity. Yeah – less wastage, more efficiecy. FOSS and SaaS… just as long as their consultants are progressive enough to see things that way.
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Mike Stopforth says:
28 July 2006 at 17:03
I know that the Shuttleworth foundation landed a big Linux implementation with gvt earlier this year so there is a paradigm shift at hand. Great post from Dan Farber on the opportunities of foss
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3391
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rafiq says:
31 July 2006 at 11:12
TYFYC Mike. Remind me to teach you how to trackback.
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Kurt Hendricks says:
27 October 2006 at 21:37
You guys should be aware of what is happening in your own City. The City of Cape Town is already a large user of Open Source. Unlike othr govt departments and various foundations that only talk about it, they are already using it on hundreds of desktops and servers.
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rafiq says:
29 October 2006 at 11:31
TYFYC Kurt Hendricks – Of that I’m fully aware, it may be one of the reason that the WC gov is able to slash the budget without slashing the quality of service, what are your views?
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Kurt Hendricks says:
24 November 2006 at 17:09
The problem is that these guys are the only ones who seem to be trying to do real stuff on open source in govt. It’s a pity that their budgets get reduced, when all the other’s in govt, with massive budgets, and who are doing very little for OSS – and in some cases actively opposing it, have their budget’s untouched.
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