Re: [opensuse] OT - Linux and open source in use in public administration?
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
On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 21:10 +0900, Denis Brown wrote:
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.
In Sweden there has been discussions. But not much more. The only official decision is that government internet services must, to the user, be platform agnostic. I can live with that. So, when I wanted my electronic ID so I could file taxes on line, there was a Linux browser plugin. And it works.
HTH, Denis
-- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
In Brazil we have very huge efforts to migrate all the government's
network (including state and municipal too) to Linux. There is an
unanimous adoption in the state and federal universities (mine one as
example).
I worked in a migrations project in a council some years ago (wireless
networks and desktop migrations, servers and LTSPs for me). It
envolved public schools, public kindergartens, well, all the 26 public
builds there. It still working until now, and they doesn't want to
return do M$ ever.
You can hear about these efforts at every place here! (Just awesome!!!)
2007/11/23, Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 21:10 +0900, Denis Brown wrote:
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.
In Sweden there has been discussions. But not much more. The only official decision is that government internet services must, to the user, be platform agnostic. I can live with that. So, when I wanted my electronic ID so I could file taxes on line, there was a Linux browser plugin. And it works.
HTH, Denis
-- Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST
Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden
Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696
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