El Pais: Zaragoza Migrates to Linux to Save ?1M Annually
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| The City Council of Zaragoza has decided to abandon the Windows
| operating system and move to open source systems that should save
| the Aragon capital city nearly 1M Euro per year.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-02-26-014-26-NW-PB-NV
Related (and very recent):
[South African] Government switches to Open Source
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| Cape Town - Cabinet has approved a policy and strategy to implement
| Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in government, government
| communications head Themba Maseko said on Thursday.
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http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2888&iArticleId=3695987
http://tinyurl.com/2c8lbz
Cuba Embraces Open-Source Software
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| Both governments say they are trying to wean state agencies from
| Microsoft's proprietary Windows to the open-source Linux operating
| system, which is developed by a global community of programmers
| who freely share their code.
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| Other countries have tried similar moves. China, Brazil and
| Norway have encouraged the development of Linux for a variety
| of reasons: Microsoft's near-monopoly over operating systems,
| the high cost of proprietary software and security problems.
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CUBA_SOFTWARE?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://tinyurl.com/29dejf
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