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City of Turku testing of:
OpenOffice.org,
x3270,
IBM Host On-Demand,
WRQ Reflection for the Web,
Hansa,
AS400 Emulator,
Netscape Communicator,
Mozilla,
Konqueror,
F-Secure Anti-Virus.
No actual migration experience reported. Intention to migrate in 2003.
A collection of sites apparently using GNU/Linux. Information on each site is slight, but there are links to possible contacts who may be able to provide further information.
A description of the use of OSS in Extremadura in Spain. A local distribution has been created called linex (see http://www.linex.org/). Their experience is that users have little problem in using the software. Also users need access to Windows to deal with Microsoft's file formats in some circumstances. They have recently announced that 80,000 users are now supported.
This is a story about the City of Largo. It has a number of links and discusses the cost of ownership.
A company that has written up its experience of moving to OSS on the desktop as well as their servers. A KDE site.
A description of Zumiez who have put Ximian Gnome desktops into their organisation. Other case studies as well.
This contains reports of experiences in Denmark. It refers to a report by the Danish Board of Technology which unfortunately is not fully translated into English.
A case study of a UK company which migrated to OSS recently.
An experience of using OSS in schools.
A list of case studies. Some useful information.
A study of OSS in public administrations in Sweden.
A list of IBM-specific case studies. No real detail and server-centric but gives a feel for the real world use of GNU/Linux.
A list of HP-specific case studies.
Beaumont hospital in Dublin has over several years moved completely to OSS not only in its technical but also its administration IT. The link gives quite a lot of detail. Beaumont expect to save on the order of €13 million over a period of 5 years due to the change. They have found that, properly managed, the migration is found to be acceptable to all staff and that the OSS systems can be run much more efficiently.