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German Free/Open Source Migration Project
Jaws writes: "BSI (the German equivalent of NIST) has announced a project proposal for planning and implementation of partial migration of certain federal government offices to free/open source products. Three sites in two cities, servers and desktops, each site with a few dozen/several hundred seats. They are asking for a full-service, detailed plan including infrastructure, installation, documentation, support, and education. Looks like a reasonable pilot project. (The original in German; Fish-English version)"
the police in a german state - niedersachsen (lower saxonia) will even completely move to linux. about 11000 desktop linux computers will be used from 2004 on. these clients will connect to a high speed linux cluster. the special police software is written in java, star office 6 and netscape communicator will be used.
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the lower saxonia police tested win2k and xp against linux and found out that linux is more secure, easier to administrate and saves about 20 milliones euros in 10 years.
at the present time lower saxonia police uses 5500 x terminals with 200 unix mainframes.
the text in german is here
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-17.
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