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Free software adoption cases

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Vienna

In 2005 Vienna migrated Microsoft Office 2000 to OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Windows 2000 to Linux .

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Brazil

The government of Brazil migrated from Microsoft Windows to Linux .

National Assembly

The National Assembly of France has had plans to migrate to Linux, OpenOffice.org and Firefox.

National Gendarmerie

The National Gendarmerie adopted OpenOffice.org Firefox and Thunderbird.

Munich

The City of Munich decided to migrate its desktops from Microsoft Windows NT to Linux. On 28 May 2003 the city announced the migration, in June 2004 after the pilot project run by SuSE Linux and IBM there was a final approval for the migration. On 14 April 2005 the city decided to migrate to Debian from a commercial Linux distribution.

Schwäbisch Hall

Schwäbisch Hall migrated its 400 workstations to Linux in late 2002. The factors were cost, better security, escape from the treadmill of vendor-driven upgrades.

Assam

Government of Assam state made open source a part of its IT policy.

Kerala

Under the IT@School project the government of Kerala has adopted free and open sourced software for the schools.

Public libraries

IOSSPL is a free and open source software used for public libraries in Romania.

References

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