Shepway Council ups use of online services with open source system
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| Shepway District Council in Kent has increased the use of online services
| and cut customer query response times after installing an open source
| payments processing engine.
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| Cheshire County Council used open source software to replace Windows
| 98 when Microsoft withdrew support for the operating system. The
| county council decided that keeping the old Windows 98 devices with
| an open source client would be cheaper than upgrading to a later
| version of Windows.
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| Bristol City Council installed Star Office (the open source
| alternative to Microsoft Office) on more than 200 computers.
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| Birmingham City Council implemented the Open Office productivity
| suite in its public libraries.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/05/11/223769/shepway-council-ups-use-of-online-services-with-open-source.htm
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Yesterday:
Half of UK firms using open source
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| A survey of 500 IT decision makers by Forrester found that 51% of
| firms using open source are using it in mission-critical applications.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/05/10/223721/half-of-uk-firms-using-open-source.htm
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