What uses does the Zonbu have in the government information technology community?
It comes with 20 applications including Firefox, OpenOffice and Evolution, which is an e-mail solution developed by Novell. The Zonbu can browse the Web, open and save office documents, and receive e-mail messages, which are all the basic needs of employees. The use of open-source systems is growing in government agencies across the world. There are numerous examples of public entities in the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Asia that have decided to drop proprietary operating systems and replace them with open-source software ‘ not only on their servers but also on employees’ desktop PCs. Q: You’ve founded four software companies now. What lessons have you learned? A: Our engineering team is spread all over the world. We use the latest communications tools to share and collaborate on this project. Our costs are lower than those of a standard business with big offices. All of our engineers work from home. Everything is digitized and is on my Zonbu account, accessible anywhere, anyti
