At 05:39 PM 23/11/2007, Clayton wrote:
> A friend of mine in the UK is looking for examples of Linux and/or open
> source being used in public administration. I've named quite a few of
> the German examples, but if anyone's got a list or useful resources,
> I'd much appreciate it. From anywhere.
>
> It appears that local government in his part of the world is only
> interested in negotiating with <youknowwho>, and the local Linux User
> Group is trying to suggest anopther angle :-)
There is quite a bit of information here that might be useful...
OpenOffice.org focused, but it does give a rather good snapshot of
government agencies and private companies who are using OOo and Linux
(including SUSE in many).
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments
Just out of interest I put "linux open source used in public
administration" into Google and returned 1.25 million hits :-) Including
the original poster's reference.
It seems that Spain, Italy, Venezuela, Brazil, Canada (especially schools)
... are all on the bandwagon. And I recall a SuSE presentation which
showed SuSE SLES and Xen being used big-time in the German air traffic
control. Talk about mission-critical apps :-)
Hope this helps to get you pointed in the right areas. I may have
references on my University's intranet that I could hunt up and let you have.
HTH,
Denis
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