The First Afro-Arab Open Source Software Forum was held in Cairo Under the auspices of Ahmed Darwish, Egypt’s State Minister of Administrative Development. The forum highlighted the benefits of adopting open source software policies to cut costs and speed up IT investment decisions. The forum featured representatives from Google, Sun and Microsoft who shared their insights on open source software policies.
Youssef Adnan, ConnectmeTV Co-founder and VP of Engineering, spoke as a featured pioneer in Open Source Software application at the forum. “The market trend shows that there is an inverse relationship between the economy and the OSS sales. While the economy is going down, the OSS sales and usage in the business are going up”, Adnan explained.