From: Mustafa Akgul (akgul@bilkent.edu.tr)
Date: Fri 26 Jan 2007 - 10:00:51 GMT
*NL: The Netherlands gives Linux and OpenOffice a try
<http://i-policy.typepad.com/informationpolicy/2007/01/nl_the_netherla.html>*
The Dutch city of Amsterdam has announced plans to spend €300.000 on
testing Linux desktop and OpenOffice in its housing department and in
the Zeeburg borough office. The test is scheduled to run during the
first half of 2007, after which, depending on the result, other city
offices may follow suit and switch to open source.
Amsterdam joins nine other cities in The Netherlands that are also
evaluating open source software and which have, together with Amsterdam,
signed a manifesto on the implementation of the pilot projects. The
cities include The Hague, Eindhoven and Groningen. The Dutch government
is funding the research through a three-year programme aimed at
supporting supplier independence and interoperability.
The cities are not necessarily intending to stop using Microsoft
software entirely but are hoping to cut down on IT expenses and increase
their independence from proprietary software vendors. "It is the
expectation that a new contract with Microsoft will be smaller," said
Amsterdam spokeswoman, Marjolijn van Goethem. Amsterdam's current
contract with Microsoft expires at the end of 2008.
Outside the Netherlands, several of Europe's largest cities are also
moving to open source, or considering such a move. Austria's capital
city, Vienna, has embarked on an ambitious Red Hat desktop roll-out, and
the German city of plans to migrate 80% of its PCs to Linux by the
middle of 2009.
http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/6515/194
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