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Catching up on the news.

Ecma seems pleased with OpenXML:

International standards body Ecma has established an Office Open XML standard that is free from proprietary measures, Ecma said in a white paper issued this week.

http://www.techweb.com/wire/software/193402985

Birmingham gave up.

"Birmingham pulled the plug on its open-source desktop project after it found that an upgrade to Windows XP was cheaper."

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6138154.html

Munich has achieved moving 100 staff:

"The local government in the German city has transferred 100 staff members in the Lord Mayor's department to a Debian configuration, and it intends to migrate 80 percent of the city's PCs by mid-2009."

That's a year late.

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"'The need to station soldiers in the doorway to maintain order will probably not continue.' observed the project director. 'Employees have prepared their home computers and should be able to replace the official system immediately on future migrations.' he added."

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6119153.html


The French Parliament announced only that it had determined that switching to Linux would aggravate many people... would be worth doing:

"Starting in June 2007, PCs in French deputes' offices will be equipped with a Linux operating system and open-source productivity software.

The project, backed by parliament members Richard Cazenave and Bernard Carayon of the Union for a Popular Movement party, will see 1,154 French parliamentary workstations running on Linux, with OpenOffice.org productivity software, the Firefox Web browser and an open-source e-mail client.

A spokesperson for the parliament's administration said a decision as to the choice of Linux distribution and e-mail client hasn't yet been made. Currently, some of the parliament's servers have been running Linux, with Apache Web servers and the Mambo content management system."

That's an intention, so far.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6138372.html



So the Linux successes you mention are more ambiguous than you suggest.

Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 12/04/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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