Re: Urgent: Organizations using open source
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:50:33AM +0500, Sufyan Kakakhel wrote:
> We (Open source resource center of Pakistan )just came to know about a
> government project of automation for which a government department
> was about to buy proprietary software worth Rs. 10 million.
>
> We interfered, and requested the ministry to stop the procurement
> process, and go for an open source operating system and office suite,
> The member IT, a pro open source official directed the said department
> to adopt open source solutions to the maximum possible extant.
>
> The said department is hesitant and putting different objections.
> Now they say, please give us some success stories of some
> organizations where open source (linux as operating system) has been
> deployed on desktop level.
>
> Any one of you, who is aware of any such organization please forward
> me the names of organizations, with a contact point, phone numbers/
> emails etc. ASAP..
Maybe the most renowned in recent days would be the city of Munich, who
migrated many thousands of boxes to linux (or maybe is underway of doing it,
not sure). There are other similar projects, and also some document from the
european union about open sources, which may be of interest to you.
Others may have other links too.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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