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NZ Justice Ministry wants open source

12/14/2007  
Relevance: 8.89
In a Ministry of Justice report, which can be found on the New Zealand Open Source Society Web site, the ministry addresses traditional concerns about open source, and concludes that although"open source software [OSS] was once an extraordinary way of thinking, limited to academia and small guerrilla projects in a community of hackers...[it] can lead to a more stable, supportable and cost-effective IT environment, and should be pursued for pragmatic reasons".
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Poland: Ministry of Education recommends Open Source

08/14/2008  
Relevance: 8.26
The Polish Ministry of National Education is advising schools and universities to use Open Source software. The recommendation comes at the end of a volunteer campaign to help schools switch to Open Source. The Ministry recommended in a statement that schools and universities use OpenOffice. The application suite is sufficiently mature and advanced to be used for teaching and for office use in education and science institutes."OpenOffice can successfully substitute proprietary applications and will result in significant savings on licenses."
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French Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Choose Mandriva

07/04/2007  
Relevance: 8.01
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries chose to migrate its local servers from Windows NT Server to Mandriva
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DE: Foreign ministry:'Cost of Open Source desktop maintenance is by far the lowest'

11/02/2008  
Relevance: 7.99
The Foreign Ministry is migrating all of its 11.000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other Open source applications. According to Schuster, this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries."The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we invest only one thousand euro per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average invest more than 3000 euro per desktop per year."
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Ministry of Justice updates open-source policy

02/13/2008  
Relevance: 7.96
The Ministry of Justice has added an extra policy covering total cost of ownership to its Open Source Adoption Paper, a paper described by New Zealand Open Source society President Don Christie as 'groundbreaking' . The new policy says the ministry should make systems adoption and replacement decisions based on full lifecycle costs. The paper suggests TCOtool (www.tcotool.org), an open-source toolset, as a useful way to compare real costs.
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Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance Powers Mission-Critical Applications with Red Hat Solutions

12/18/2007  
Relevance: 7.95
Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance has selected Red Hat solutions to power the organization's mission-critical applications. The Ministry selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux for reliability and heightened performance, and is utilizing the solution as the main platform for many of its critical applications, including its"Service Personale Tesoro" (SPT) application, which runs on one of the most popular Italian government websites.
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France: Education Ministry encourages Open Source use

06/09/2008  
Relevance: 7.41
The department at the French Ministry of Education that is handling purchasing of software and software licenses is increasing its Open Source offerings to some 1.5 million teachers and education workers in 250 institutes France
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Ministry says no as school opts for free software (NZ)

10/13/2008  
Relevance: 7.18
Warrington School, in Otago, will not get paid funds allocated for Microsoft licences after moving to open source software, simply because the school was never billed, says the Ministry of Education. The school is deploying the GNU/Linux operating system, aiming to have free software across the board by 2010, and the complete switch to Linux has been approved by the MoE, says the school’s principal, Nathan Parker.
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Viet Nam signs on with large open source software alliance

12/14/2008  
Relevance: 6.88
Viet Nam has officially become a member of Asianux, an organisation dedicated to the development of free software, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Tran Quoc Thang has announced. He was speaking at a recent symposium on open source software (OSS) in Ha Noi, organised by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education and Training, the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other agencies related to the IT sector.
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Red Hat lands big customers

09/07/2007  
Relevance: 6.44
Red Hat is continuing to land big, fat contracts for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux server. This week saw major deals with the French Ministry for Education and the Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry. In the first deal, the French Ministry for Education migrated 2,500 servers across its 30 local education authorities to RHEL. Red Hat followed up this announcement with news of another major European deal. FASS.se, the main medicines portal run by the LIF (Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry), has migrated its servers from Sun Solaris to RHEL.
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