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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