Free software adoption cases

Free software adoption cases

= Austria =

Vienna

In 2005 Vienna migrated Microsoft Office 2000 to OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Windows 2000 to Linux [ [http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39185440,00.htm Vienna to softly embrace Linux - ZDNet UK ] ] [ [http://www.wien.gv.at/ma14/oss.html Open Source Software am Arbeitsplatz im Magistrat Wien ] ] .

Brazil

The government of Brazil migrated from Microsoft Windows to Linux [ [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4471963 NPR: Brazil Makes Move to Open Source Software ] ] [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4602325.stm BBC NEWS | Business | Brazil adopts open-source software ] ] .

France

National Assembly

The National Assembly of France will migrate by 2007 to Linux, OpenOffice.org and Firefox [ [http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/presse/divisionpresse/m01.asp Assemblée nationale : communiqué de presse ] ] [ [http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/informatique/0,39040745,39364970,00.htm Linux s'installe dans les PC des députés - Actualités - ZDNet.fr ] ] .

National Gendarmerie

The National Gendarmerie adopted OpenOffice.org [ [http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/informatique/0,39040745,39203431,00.htm La gendarmerie nationale passe à OpenOffice - Actualités - ZDNet.fr ] ] Firefox and Thunderbird.

Germany

Munich

The City of Munich decided to migrate its desktops from Microsoft Windows NT to Linux. On 28 May 2003 the city announced the migration [ [http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,2135356,00.htm Munich deal boosts desktop Linux - ZDNet UK ] ] , in June 2004 after the pilot project run by SuSE Linux and IBM there was a final approval for the migration [ [http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39157887,00.htm Munich decides to stick with Linux - ZDNet UK ] ] . In 14 April 2005 the city decided to migrate to Debian from a commercial Linux distribution [ [http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39195204,00.htm Munich picks its Linux distro - ZDNet UK ] ] .

Schwäbisch Hall

Schwäbisch Hall migrated its 400 workstations to Linux in late 2002 [ [http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39146113,00.htm German city reveals Linux migration tactics - ZDNet UK ] ] . The factors were cost, better security, escape from the treadmill of vendor-driven upgrades.

External links

*http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/free_software_in_public_administration_beta
*http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/chapter/470 IDABC Open Source Case Studies

References


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