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Open Source Migration at the Spanish Ministry for Public Administration

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The Spanish ministry has realised a server side open source software migration in the last years. Debian and Red Hat based Linux operating systems running on Intel x86 hardware replaced SPARC/Solaris…

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Open Source Software Adoption in the Polish City of Gdańsk

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The Polish city of Gdańsk adopted open source software within its city council administration. At the open source seminar Business Management Methods and IT Investments, Wieslaw Patrzek…

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Open Source Case Study – OpenOffice trials in the Province of Genova

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Since 2004, the Italian Province of Genova (Genoa) has participated in a number of projects related to Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS). These have included development of a collaborative work…

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Open Source Adoption of the German Federal Office for Information Security

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At the Linux Tag 2005 in Karlsruhe, Horst Samsel, the person in charge of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), presented details of the recently realised open source adoption at his…

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Open Source Migration of the German Surveying and Land Register Administration

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The Surveying and Land Register administration of the German Federal state Rhineland-Palatinates (LVermGeo) started to migrate its IT environment towards open source software. At the Linux Tag 2005 in…

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City of Amsterdam investigates the use of Open Source Software within its welfare organisations

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The City of Amsterdam initiated two pilot projects to investigate the possibilities to use Open Source Software within welfare organisations funded by the City. The use of Open Source Software might…

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Open Source Software Migration of the Employers’ Liability Insurance Association

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In March 2003, the German Verwaltungs-Berufsgenossenschaft (VBG) decided to migrate its IT environment to open source based software. The migration was realised in 2004. On June 22, 2005, Dr. Bernd…

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Arles (France), in progression towards Open Source

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Since one year now, the city of Arles is gradually migrating its IT system towards Open Source technology. The Open Source migration of the Municipality is seen as a service initiative structuring the…

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Open source software in Estonia: a long-term policy

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The Estonian public sector first adopted free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) in 1995 to save costs. Now, it has grown to appreciate the many freedoms such software provides, and all common…

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Free software wave in the Belgian Region Brussels-Capital

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Since 2004, the Region of Brussels Capital has been migrating to free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) on the desktop, from regional and communal administration offices to all secondary schools. A…

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Dutch Municipality of Haren Migrating to Open Source Software

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The Dutch municipality of Haren is preparing for an open source migration project entitled “Harken en Vorken” (Rake and Hayfork). The project aims to build a server based computing environment. Within…

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