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Background info on the ministerBackground info on the ministerPosted Nov 22, 2003 11:48 UTC (Sat) by bockman (guest, #3650)Parent article: Governmental open source directives in Italy Lucio Stanca was a very high-level manager of IBM Italia (maybe even general director, I don't remember). So, maybe, for once whe have a minister actually knowing what he is ruling about ( although there is also the risk of conflict between his current responsibility and his previous positon at IBM).
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Background info on the minister Posted Nov 27, 2003 9:05 UTC (Thu) by prometeo (guest, #16200) [Link] Actually, he was the head of IBM SEMEA (South Europe, Middle East, Asia). He left the position to assume the role of Minister of Innovation (which is a new Ministry without direct funding). He is trying to push broadband (through a subside for young people to get ADSL lines), broaden the range of installed PCs (again with subsides for poor people to buy new PCs) and trying to get away from the MS monopoly in the Italian Government (there's a contract signed in '96 IIRC, which dictates Win98 as the base OS for any PC sold in the Public Administration, apart from mainframes and dedicated servers).
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