Thu, 2016-05-05 15:33Colin Charles
I'm now in Hanoi, Vietnam, for the launch of OpenCPS. What, might you ask, is OpenCPS? OpenCPS translates to Open Core Public Services, as Vietnam is providing online public services and OpenCPS should sit at its core. Naturally, all of this will be open source, and AGPL licensed. OpenCPS is the first open source project to realize the development of e-government services in Vietnam.
Why does this matter to us? Because at the core of its infrastructure is of course, MariaDB Server as the database of choice, with Red Hat being the Linux provider of choice.
I met the interim project lead, Truong Anh Tuan, quite sometime ago, but the tipping point was a keynote presentation on MariaDB Server at FOSSASIA 2015, in Singapore (so thanks again to the organisers for ensuring I keynoted about MariaDB Server there). So when they approached me at …
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