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CH: Parliament members say vendor lock-in desktop is causing chaos
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| Members of the Swiss parliament
| (Nationalrat) say that the government's
| dependence on a single IT vendor for its
| desktop operating systems is causing a chaos
| and is leading to increasing IT costs.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/ch-parliament-members-say-vendor-lock-desktop-is-causing-chaos
AT: Vendor dependency forces Vienna to renew proprietary office licences
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| Layr explained to Der Standard that the
| decision will not have any influence on the
| open source desktop plans of the city.
| Public administrators can continue to use
| the Linux based desktop distribution Wienux
| and or OpenOffice if they so choose.
|
| The city has always said that the use of the
| Wienux desktop is voluntary.
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| Of the city's total 32,000 PCs just a
| thousand run the open source desktop system.
| Some 15,000 PCs in the city have OpenOffice
| installed.
|
| Last year, the city was forced to renew
| proprietary operating system licences for
| some seven hundred of these Wienux PCs. The
| deal was necessary for all of the Wienux PCs
| used in child day care centres, in order to
| run an application testing language skills
| that can only work with a proprietary
| browser.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/at-vendor-dependence-force-vienna-to-renew-proprietary-office-licences
Recent:
A math teacher with his students bring Desktop4education to austrian schools
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| This is an introduction to a case study that was
| published recently, this case study is a good
| example for everyone of us, if we need to extend
| the use of opensource and especially Linux we
| need to start from the basic, that are our
| children, and the best place where to start,
| are the schools.
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http://www.unixmen.com/news-today/480--a-math-teacher-and-his-students-bring-desktop4education-to-austrian-schools
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