"The European Commission has awarded UK-based consultancy netproject a €250,000 contract to study the issues of migrating government computers in member states to a Linux / Open Source environment.
netproject has been hired by the Commission to draw up guidelines on a move to open source technologies and to help define EU IT strategy on desktop computing. The German state of Mecklenburg-Pomerania is to be used as a test bed in defining this strategy, which goes beyond the investigation of a switch between Windows and Linux PCs. ...
[Eddie Bleasdale, a director at netproject] told us there was 'more than just a passing interest' in this work when he met people from seven European countries who are working on how to deploy Linux for public administration.
Countries represented included: Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Spain and a representative from the European Commission.
The majority of delegates said that their main concern was the cost of ownership of their current PCs, Bleasdale told us.
Microsoft's recently introduced licensing changes have added weight to this concern but Bleasdale said an even bigger issue was the rate of change that Microsoft is imposing on customers, and many are struggling to deal with it."
Source: Leyden, John. "Brussels to spend €250k on Linux migration study". The Register (30 October 2002). http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27853.html. Accessed 27 November 2002.
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