Re: [Sheflug] Sheffield Green Party: Linux for Sheffield City Council

[Alan Dawson <aland [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Julian R C Briggs <J.Briggs [at] dcs.shef.ac.uk>:


> I'm looking for pointers to other city councils, schools in
> Sheffield etc who have explored or implemented this.
> 

As well as the well publicised German Munich council move to Linux, there is
Nottingham council [1] using SuSE Linux and the Horde application framework [2]
for their messaging systems.  

They regulary feed patches back into the Horde development tree.

Then there was Newham council OSS test, where rumour has it was the success of
OSS that enabled it to lever such discounts from Microsoft [3], and an article
on the Register where they discuss lock to MS products [4].

[1]http://www.suse.de/en/company/press/press_releases/archive03/nottingham_city_council.html

[2] http://www.horde.org

[3] http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/35063.html

[4] http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/35019.html

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