Open source code won another victory after the local government department shifted. The Software of the Vienna Municipal Government in the Austrian capital will transfer the software to Linux.
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The Vienna Municipal Government will begin to transfer the operating system on all desktops to Linux open source software, the IT official Erwin Gillic of the Vienna Municipal Government, this is a flexible transfer, the user can choose from Microsoft's Office 2000 transfer to Open Source Productivity Application OpenOffice.org and transferred from Microsoft's Windows 2000 to Linux. For example, OpenOffice.org can run on Windows or run on Linux. If you do not change their steering system. Users can convert productivity applications.
Gilliic said that in 16,000 computers, the Vienna City government determined that there were 7,500 units that could not be transferred to OpenOffice.org, and 4,800 can't be transferred to Linux. The IT department provides free installation OpenOffice.org or Linux. If they run the open source software overcome Microsoft's Office or Windows, they will be ordered to charge only less costs.
Gillic pointed out that the advantage of this price is likely to encourage some departments to transfer, but more than hundreds of users are unable to transfer to open source software in the first year. Over time, he expects this number to increase, but he believes that all users choose to use open source software. Gillich said: "We hope it is successful, but this is determined by the domestic market."
Since the end of last year, Gillich led by Gillich has been committed to creating a predetermined LINUX distinguishing between Debian. This scheduled INUX is named Wienux, which will include a small number of particularly good tools, not distinguishing between standard Debian, will modify more about Windows.
Gillich said that he chooses to build his own distinction, because the cost will be better than a business distinction, such as red hat or Novell Suse, Debian is a choice, in other free Linux, it is the best Stable distinction. We can count on it.
Vienna is not the only European city that moves on the desktop to Linux. Germany Munich Planned by 2008 to transfer 14,000 PCs to OpenOffice.org and Linux. There were 100 schools in the Norwegian Bergen city, which were transferred on the desktop, with 32,000 researchers and primary school students. The administrative department of Paris is considering transferring 17,000 PCs, but in the middle of October, they have begun, they say that this transfer will mean significantly reduce extra cost without improving services.
