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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org