FOSS makes computing as accessible as this new $25 PC: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/raspberry-pi-2012-2">http://www.businessinsider.com/raspberry-pi-2012-2</a> <br><br>Imagine every school kid and varsity student with one of those with a FOSS GIS stack on it! <br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 March 2012 09:22, S Coetzer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geotech.sarel@gmail.com">geotech.sarel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The entire FNB home loans branch is using PostgreSQL database (OSS), this is a banking institute, how do you say riskier?<br><br>Infact FNB is using Linux on their INTRANET system. Linux is probably the safest environment you can develop in today internet society and that includes the servers (redhat, ubuntu).<br>
<br>Oracle has embraced redhat and mysql which actually is owned by oracle. <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/index.html</a><br><br>
OSS is not just GIS software.<br>
<br>My point is, don't loose faith the community is huge and their is no security issues.<br><br>Instead of paying R5000 for a course, get online and teach your self, do more reading.<br><br clear="all">Sarel Coetzer <br>
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