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 | Posted by: on Saturday, October 30, 2004 - 00:12
Submitted by gunne |
| | | | In a final report from the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) they comes to the conclusion that Open Source Solutions is a viable alternative to commercial proprietary software, with potential significant value for money benefits for government.
You can read the full report here
Key Conclusions (some of them)
Open Source software is a viable and credible alternative to proprietary software for infrastructure implementations, and for meeting the requirements of the majority of desktop users;
There are currently three main potential areas of implementation of OSS - on servers, the desktop and business applications, and these are currently at differing levels of maturity.
OSS Server and infrastructure products, generally based on Linux, are now perceived by the market as mature, gaining increasing acceptance, and delivering significant value for money opportunities.
OSS Desktop products (including desktop platforms such as Linux, and "office" personal productivity suites) are developing but there still has been little significant widespread implementation, though these are currently starting to be rolled out in public sector bodies in other European countries.
OSS Business Applications generally are still immature, and the scope of business applications available as Open Source software is limited. Those applications that do exist as Open Source are currently more appropriate for small or medium-sized businesses than for large public sector bodies, as they generally lack "industrial strength.
National and local governments which have moved to the adoption of Open Source software include:
- The city of Munich in Germany is migrating 14,000 desktops to a Linux platform, with OpenOffice as the office suite and Mozilla as the internet browser; the migration is expected to be complete by 2008/2009;
- The city of Bergen in Norway is migrating 20 database servers and 100 application servers to the Linux platform;
- The City Council of Barcelona in Spain has decided to migrate the city's IT systems and desktops to Open Source software;
- The region of Extremadura in SW Spain has been relying on Open Source software for several years; it has developed a network and services based on Open Source, used by schools and universities, local businesses, the general public and the regional and local administration; currently over 100,000 users are connected;
- The French Ministry of Equipment is replacing 1500 office and infrastructure servers with Linux servers;
- The Indian Department of Information Technology has developed a strategy to introduce Linux and open source software as de facto standards in academic institutions;
- The People's Republic of China plans to install at least 200 million copies of an Open Source-based desktop solution throughout the country, following an agreement between Sun Microsystems and the China Standard Software Co. Ltd.
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