Free software adoption cases

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1 Austria
- 1.1 Vienna
2 Brazil
3 France
- 3.1 National Assembly
- 3.2 National Gendarmerie
4 Germany
- 4.1 Munich
- 4.2 Schwäbisch Hall
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Austria

[edit] Vienna

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

[edit] Brazil

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

[edit] France

[edit] National Assembly

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

[edit] National Gendarmerie

The National Gendarmerie adopted OpenOffice.org^[7] Firefox and Thunderbird.

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]. In 14 April 2005 the city decided to migrate to Debian from a commercial Linux distribution ^[10].

[edit] 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.