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Freitag Januar 12, 2007

German "federal center for political education" explains open source
For those of you who can understand German, the German "federal center for political education" ("Bundeszentrale für polititsche Bildung") explains open source on this site. It's presented as a social movement within today's knowledge society.
( Jan 12 2007, 04:13:31 PM CET ) Permalink Kommentare [3]

New EU report about the impact of open source
A new report about the impact of open source has been published by the EU. The PDF document can be found here. Here are a few hightlights:

According to figure 12 on page 29 OpenOffice.org is more popular than Samba within European public bodies.
According to table 1 on page 31 more than 90% of the surveyed Brazilian government organization and more than 70% of the Indian government organizations are using OpenOffice.org.
According to paragraph 6.2.3.8 on page 35 a market share of 8% in German businesses is estimated for OpenOffice.org.
Quote from page 102: "Indeed, the group of users was also asked whether as a result of the experimentation they thought they could do with OpenOffice the same amount of work they could do with Microsoft Office. As shown in Figure 46, under 10% of respondents thought they could not, more than 20% thought they definitely could perform as well with OpenOffice, while almost 60% thought they could be as productive with OpenOffice (as confirmed by the time-use analysis) though with some problems. Given their previous lack of experience with OpenOffice the fact that problems were subjectively perceived is unsurprising, but the fact that objectively the productivity of users remained the same and did not reduce is important."
An interesting read is also table 45, "Conclusions from the comparison of the usage of OOo and MSO in the organizations", on page 244.

Enjoy the report!

( Jan 12 2007, 03:41:40 PM CET ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

Open source adoption by Indian state
According to this Spanish article the government of the state of Tamil Nadu in India has made the decision to migrate 99% of his Windows systems to open source software in 2007. 30,000 government employees are expected to switch to OpenOffice.org.
( Jan 12 2007, 03:05:53 PM CET ) Permalink

French Ministry saved 1.2M Euros with OpenOffice.org
According to this French article the French Ministry of Agriculture and Fishing saved 1.2M Euros with OpenOffice.org. The switch to OpenOffice.org cost them 1.5M Euros, but the renewal of Microsoft Office licenses would have cost them 2.7M Euros.
( Jan 12 2007, 03:00:59 PM CET ) Permalink

"UK government agency tells schools to ignore Vista"
This article is an interesting read. Here is a quote:

"The UK government agency responsible for technology in education has warned schools and colleges against deploying Microsoft Corp's Windows Vista and Office 2007 products, noting that for Vista especially 'the risks are high, and the benefits are far from clear.'"
( Jan 12 2007, 02:58:09 PM CET ) Permalink