Giant French Automaker to Deploy Linux Desktops, Citing Cost, Usability, Integration and Support

The French Court of Cassation has started its new term with a brand new website based on Linux and open source software. The new site, launched on 6 September, confirms the growing enthusiasm of the French public sector for open source solutions.

After almost a decade of dallying in Open Source, the Extremadura region of south-western Spain made the decision a year ago to migrate completely to Linux and Open Source Software. With the transition now complete, officials are counting the costs and benefits, say reports.

The German Land of Lower Saxony has announced its decision to finalise a complete switch over to the Linux Open Source Software system in its tax administration department by September of this year.

By 2007, over 400 000 computer workstations in the French central administration will be using the OpenOffice2 office suite. This massive migration towards an Open Document Format (ODF) is being supported by a wide range of training activities for administrative personnel.

The Dutch city of Groningen has decided to exchange Microsoft Office for the free Open Office suite, becoming the largest local authority in the Netherlands employing Open Office technology.

They are now running SUSE Linux

French police (70000 desktops) is switching from Internet Explorer and Outlook to Firefox and Thunderbird. They are also upgrading from OpenOffice 1.4 to 2.0 (Another article here)

Over the next two years, all government agencies have to migrate to free software.

Durban municipality in South Africa is basing its intranet and internet portal, Durban.gov.za, entirely on open-source tools.

Moved from Windows 98 to Linux

The French Military Police force has chosen to deploy Firefox and Thunderbird to respectively 70,000 and 45,000 seats.

Description of their savings and a lot of useful links.

Government intends to introduce OSS on its servers

Since more than ten years the city of Ostrava has considered OSS as a reliable solution

Using Fedora, LDAP authentication and Gnome desktop.

The move was in part a response to internal surveys by Micro Center revealed that more than 75 percent of its customers have an interest in running a Linux-based operating system as either a primary or alternative operating system.

According to the Ministry of Information Industry, almost 70 percent of all software purchases last year were of Linux-based products. Meanwhile, provincial governments, installed 45,000 desktops with Linux operating systems.

The Mall School for boys in Richmond, UK, has switched from Windows to Linux thin clients

Sun Wah Linux is set to deploy nearly 142,000 Linux PCs in what it is proclaiming as the largest Linux desktop rollout in China so far. Sun Wah is touting the roll out as a win in the battle against Microsoft in China.

The postal service agency of Korea announced that it would adopt open source software for its desktop workplaces. The agency plans to replace the Microsoft Windows operating systems nationwide by Linux.

Indonesia's Ministry of Research and Technology said it will implement Java Desktop System (JDS) on Linux as a national standard desktop.

Siegenia-Aubi KG, German maker of sound-insulating ventilators migrated from Windows to Linux. The article also discusses the migration made by a lot of enterprise application vendors to Linux.

The South Korean postal service is migrating around 4,700 desktop computers from Microsoft Windows to Linux.

National Semiconductor is making the move to Linux and are considering MySQL or PostgreSQL

Family Services Woodfield (FSW), a nonprofit organization in Bridgeport, Conn., is dipping its toes in open source waters with the help of virtual machines, LAMP, OpenLDAP and Samba

The 500 Windows NT4 servers where migrated to using the Mandiva Migration Kit NT4.

More and more ministries are developing open source software solutions in Morocco.

Public administration considers server and desktop migration

Minister presents low cost open source software based computer

A common open source (Linux) platform called WebCT95 for performing common e-services has been built

Schools in Indiana have started a Linux pilot project that could lead to every secondary-school student in the state using the open-source operating system, according to software company Linspire.

Within the next five years, half of Oracle's customers may be running Linux, company President Charles Phillips has predicted.

The city of Barcelona -- Spain's second largest city -- recently announced it will be phasing out its current Windows NT infrastructure in favour of open source software.

Linux based student information systems allows the exchange of data

The Benefit Recovery Services, a 60-seat call centre in Johannesburg saved a lot om money by switching from Windows to Linux.

Proprietary based desktop workplaces and servers will be replaced by open source systems

Brazil's government ministries and state-run enterprises are abandoning Windows in favour of (F)OSS, like Linux. (Another article)

TCO advantages from Linux Solutions Retail Conference, for example Boscov's department store saved $1 million in the first two years with Linux.

They have done a migration from different flavors of Windows with MS-Office97 to LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) with OpenOffice. The article also includes "Six steps to a successful OSS migration"

Birmingham City Council has launched one of the UK's most ambitious open-source trials to date, shifting 1,500 client computers and associated server infrastructure to Linux and other open-source software. (Also reported here.)

The cost savings have been significant

Priority Healthcare Corp. have migrated to IBM eServer xSeries servers running Red Hat Linux Advanced Server

Mississippi's agencies reduce development costs through open source project

Feedster (Internet search engine and advertising network) found that SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) was most cost-effective for thier business. They are running on AMD 64-bit hardware with MySQL-database

The article describes Access Devices migration from Windows to Linux and their decision to release it's real time OS as Open Source

Red Hat scores another Linux victory, article from TechWorld

Largest independent gasoline retailer in Ontario decides to switch to Linux

Lists ten reasons why they did the shift

New South Wales Courts migrates from Windows 2000 to a Debian

Czech Post migrates from Windows NT to SUSE Linux.

Article, describing why the schools of Bergen (a large city in Norway) decided to migrate to Linux

Article from eGovernment News (EC)