Although it might seem like a recent "buzzword", the South African government has been successfully running open source software for more than 12 years now. But how far along to moving away from proprietary software is South Africa as a country? ...

... In terms of open source adoption, South Africa currently falls firmly within the "Enhancement" phase... This means that we are now looking at new acquisitions, showing increased awareness and support as well as added capacity to sustain open source software. In fact, South Africa has produced the first multilingual product suite using African languages, developments which are only expected within the mature stage...

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