Government agencies continue to roll with Linux migrations

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: PHIL HOCHMUTH ON LINUX
07/06/05
Today's focus: Government agencies continue to roll with Linux
migrations

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Today's focus: Government agencies continue to roll with Linux
migrations

By Phil Hochmuth

While there has been debate and conflicting studies on the
cost-effectiveness for businesses to migrate from Windows to
Linux, government agencies abroad continue to pave the way for
large-scale rollouts of open source.

Recently, the South Korean government announced plans to push
Linux PCs to 10,000 schools throughout the country. The New
Education Information System project uses a version of Linux
developed by the South Korean government, built specifically for
educational purposes. The goal is to get computers distributed
broadly to schoolchildren in order to make students more
computer-literate at an early age.

The project leaders decided that developing a version of Linux
internally, instead of buying tens of thousands of educational
discount Windows licenses, would make this easier. The
government said the decision was nothing against Microsoft; it
just wanted to try developing its own systems.

Almost 5,000 miles away in Norway, more open source upheaval is
going on; this one is less-cordial towards the Washington-based
software company 4,500 miles away.

Without naming product names, Norway's Minister for
Modernization has said that the Norwegian government will move
off of "proprietary" systems by the end of 2006. Citing a
growing dependency on "proprietary" spreadsheet and presentation
software "that everyone uses," Norway plans to move its
government agencies to open source. This is part of a more
ambitious strategy to roll out a national online identity system
for citizens, and upgrade the country's IT infrastructure
overall.
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Phil Hochmuth is a Network World Senior Editor and a former
systems integrator. You can reach him at
<mailto:phochmut@nww.com>.
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