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New List For Linux in Government Initiatives

Posted by timothy on from the gathering-point-for-gathering-storm dept.

nullbyte writes "We have created a new list to discuss open-source integration/migration for governments. Our aim is to gather knowledge of successful or unsuccessful migration attempts and set up a public facility to pinpoint the key issues for a successful migration to open source. If you have heard of any migration that went sour we would like to learn about it as much as hearing reports from successfull migrations."

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  1. FLOSSpols conference on the subject by jeremie_z_ · · Score: 3, Informative

    any european folk interested by this subject should come to TheHague on nov the 18th to attend FlossPols :

    take a look at the speakers list to get an idea of how "high-level" this event can be.

    representatives from the European Union, the IDA (the organism from the EU responsible for an excellent "opensource migration guidelines" report), and from various state-ministries from all around europe will gather there around "FLOSS in government", giving concrete experience-returns and precious advise i think...

  2. Gobierno del Distrito Federal (Mexico), 1999-2000 by chochos · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I heard some stuff about an effort that was being made during 1999-2000 in the Mexico City government. I don't know much about the details, just that they were trying to dump Microsoft because of costs, and were seriously considering Linux. I don't know how far they got. What I heard was that in the end, the software was going to be a lot cheaper but the people who offered support contracts was charging too much so the savings were not that great and it was probably easy for MS to offer the typical discount.

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