Free software adoption cases

Austria

Vienna

In 2005 Vienna migrated Microsoft Office 2000 to OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Windows 2000 to Linux .[1][2]

Brazil

The government of Brazil migrated from Microsoft Windows to Linux .[3][4]

France

National Assembly

The National Assembly of France will migrate by 2007 to Linux, OpenOffice.org and Firefox.[5][6]

National Gendarmerie

The National Gendarmerie adopted OpenOffice.org[7] 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,[8] in June 2004 after the pilot project run by SuSE Linux and IBM there was a final approval for the migration.[9] On 14 April 2005 the city decided to migrate to Debian from a commercial Linux distribution.[10]

Schwäbisch Hall

Schwäbisch Hall migrated its 400 workstations to Linux in late 2002.[11] The factors were cost, better security, escape from the treadmill of vendor-driven upgrades.

India

Assam

Government of Assam state made open source a part of its IT policy.[12][13]

Kerala

Under the IT@School project the government of Kerala has adopted free and open sourced software for the schools.[14]

Romania

Public libraries

IOSSPL is a free and open source software used for public libraries in Romania.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Vienna to softly embrace Linux - ZDNet UK
  2. ↑ Open Source Software am Arbeitsplatz im Magistrat Wien
  3. ↑ NPR: Brazil Makes Move to Open Source Software
  4. ↑ BBC NEWS | Business | Brazil adopts open-source software
  5. ↑ Assemblée nationale : communiqué de presse
  6. ↑ Linux s'installe dans les PC des députés - Actualités - ZDNet.fr
  7. ↑ La gendarmerie nationale passe à OpenOffice - Actualités - ZDNet.fr
  8. ↑ Munich deal boosts desktop Linux - ZDNet UK
  9. ↑ Munich decides to stick with Linux - ZDNet UK
  10. ↑ Munich picks its Linux distro - ZDNet UK
  11. ↑ German city reveals Linux migration tactics - ZDNet UK
  12. ↑ Assam government IT Policy
  13. ↑ Open Source India News
  14. ↑ Kerala opted for foss

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