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[News] Cultural Changes Drive Free Software Adoption

  • Subject: [News] Cultural Changes Drive Free Software Adoption
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:45:09 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Cultural Changes Key to Reducing Barriers to Open Source Software

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| Their front end e-business suite runs on a 230-node IBM Cluster under Red Hat 
| Enterprise Linux, and their front-end Web tier is based on the JBoss-Tomcat 
| application server with Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol Server. They use 
| PostgreSQL because the performance is on par with commercial software but 
| with significant cost savings. Recently, their high-performance computing 
| group moved from proprietary symmetric multiprocessing operating systems to 
| Linux. This speaks to the maturity of open source software.      
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http://www.afcea.org/signal/articles/templates/SIGNAL_Article_Template.asp?articleid=1439&zoneid=60

Recent example from the Netherlands below.


Related:

Netherlands Picks ODF

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| Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Economic Affairs, announced today that ODF will 
| be the standard for reading, publishing and the exchange of information for 
| all governmental organisations. The deadline is January 2009.  
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http://gotze.eu/2007/09/netherlands-picks-odf.html


Dutch Consumer Association declares war on Vista

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/10/13/dutch_consumer_association_declares_war/


Open source test successful

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| 28 September 2007 - A test with open source software has been successful and 
| there are no technical impediments to introducing such software in the entire 
| municipal organisation, Amsterdam announced this week at a meeting organised 
| by the Ministry of the Interior.   
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http://www.nieuwsuitamsterdam.nl/English/2007/09/open_source_success.htm


Dutch political party's youth department switching to open source software

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| DWARS, the youth department of Dutch political party GroenLinks, wants open 
| source software to be the standard for computers and internet. 
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http://digg.com/linux_unix/Dutch_politcal_party_s_youth_department_switching_to_open_source_software


Decision on open source in December

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| If the outcome is positive, 10,000 municipality employees will change to open 
| source software. 
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http://www.nieuwsuitamsterdam.nl/English/2007/09/open_source.htm

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