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Upgrade to Freedom - Schools in South Tyrol have their own GNU/Linux distribution
In 2004, Bolzano\'s schools needed to upgrade the software on their computers. Carlo Pomaro, working at the school authority of Bolzano\'s provincial government, and Antonio Russo, a teacher at a…
DOCUMENTCreated: 06/06/2007Updated Date: 16/10/2017
PloneGov (PloneGov)
An updated version of this case study taking into account the evolution of the project is available at: www.epractice.eu/en/cases/plonegov2009More than 75 Belgian, French, Spanish and Swiss cities and…
DOCUMENTCreated: 06/06/2007Updated Date: 06/06/2007
Andalusia: FLOSS as a tool for the information society
In 2005, the regional government of Andalusia decided to make the software it owns available as FLOSS by means of a repository. Since 2003 already, the government of Andalusia is pursuing a…
DOCUMENTCreated: 08/05/2007Updated Date: 16/10/2017
Open Source Software Migration in the Belgian City of Schoten
Schoten adopted open source software within its server IT environment and replaced numerous proprietary applications. According to the municipality, the migration was a big success. Due to the new…
DOCUMENTCreated: 21/12/2005Updated Date: 16/10/2017
Open Source Software Migration at the Orwell High School, UK
Orwell High School, in Felixstowe on the East Coast of England, is a school with some 1.000 students ranging in age from 11 to 18. The High School introduced open source software in the scope of a…
DOCUMENTCreated: 19/12/2005Updated Date: 16/10/2017
Bologna engages with Open Source
Sensitive to Open Source development, the city of Bologna takes part in further Open Source actions among which two EU projects: USE-ME.GOV Project (I) and the ACTOS Project (II). In addition to this…
DOCUMENTCreated: 30/11/2005Updated Date: 16/10/2017
Prague works with Open Source
In the middle of the year 2001, in the framework of an important internal reorganisation, the municipality of Prague started to direct research and analysis towards Open Source Software. At this time…
DOCUMENTCreated: 30/11/2005Updated Date: 30/11/2005
A Brief Overview of Open Source Software in Romania
Since 1989, many things have changed in Romania, including computers, and the way how other nations perceive the country. Romania is better known for its “Dracula figure” than for its IT involvement…
DOCUMENTCreated: 31/10/2005Updated Date: 16/10/2017
Open Source Software Survey in Italian Schools
The Italian Osservatorio Tecnologico launched a survey on May 2005 to analyse the use of open source software in Italian schools. The preliminary results, presented in June 2005, showed that some…
DOCUMENTCreated: 26/09/2005Updated Date: 16/10/2017
Open Source Migration at the Spanish Ministry for Public Administration
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…
DOCUMENTCreated: 26/09/2005Updated Date: 16/10/2017
Open Source Software Adoption in the Polish City of Gdańsk
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…
DOCUMENTCreated: 26/09/2005Updated Date: 16/10/2017
Open Source Case Study – OpenOffice trials in the Province of Genova
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…
DOCUMENTCreated: 31/08/2005Updated Date: 16/10/2017