RE: Call for help: formulating a national government strategy on FreeSoftware

[MAZDA]

Hello to All !

i have just reading a Post about helping to formulate some strategy for governements.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=58360

My English is not such good to understand all but when i am not wrong the Poster want to know if there is in the World some sucefully implemented Linux Platforms for Governoments.

If this is what the poster want to know could maybe some one which know English very well write in the Wiki something about the LiMux project.
I have it not found allready in the Wiki

As i know is the LiMux Project the best example how a Governement can Switch from Windows to Linux.

Thanks a lot.
Greetings Mazda !

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/14/1352214&tid=90&tid=106

Posted by Zonk on Thu Apr 14, '05 10:41 AM
from the home-of-lager dept.
RichiH writes "Notwithstanding the recent craze about Ubuntu and the negative effects this might have, the german city of Munich chose Debian as the base for its LiMux project. Gonicus and SoftCon are the companies who were chosen to achieve this feat. With 14,000 desktops, this is one of the largest Linux transistions ever, even prompting Microsoft's Steve Balmer to offer a rebate of 90%. Other /. coverage here here and here."

[MAZDA]

Ah Yes !

Another great open source Project for Governements is the Austrian WIENUX project.

http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:LiLTRfGPA9oJ:www.zdnetindia.com/techzone/enterprise/stories/124748.html+wienux&hl=de&client=firefox

Vienna starts desktop Linux migration
Ingrid Marson, ZDNet UK,
July 06, 2005

It may mean nothing to you, but the Wienux distribution is now being rolled out in Vienna.

The Austrian capital city of Vienna kicked off its soft migration to open source software on the desktop on Tuesday.

Vienna town councillor Rudi Schicker presented the city's bespoke Linux distribution, known as Wienux, at a press conference. Departments in the city administration will now be given the option to migrate to open source software on the desktop.

The city is currently running Microsoft Windows 2000 and Office 2000 on its 16,000 desktop PCs, but has identified 7,500 that could be migrated to the open source productivity application OpenOffice.org. Of these, 4,800 could also be migrated to the open source operating system Linux.