[Solar-general] Alemania - HP y Novell soportan municipios: Linux Kommunale

[Martín Olivera]

> today HP and Novell introduced a project here in germany, that might be of 
> some interest to some of you, so i thought i let you know :)
> As you might know, some municipal administrations in germany are moving their 
> desktops from windows to linux. With munich being the biggest city of those, 
> which is going to migrate 14.000 clients, this has also come to public 
> attention.
> Lately there have been some troubles, either caused by technical issues, but 
> also because of the pending decission of the european council about 
> software-patents. While there is still no final decission made about the 
> software patents, luckily most administrations (including munich) decided to 
> move on with their migration efforts.
> So much about previous history.
> 
> Now HP and Novell started a project which is called "Linux Kommunale" ( could 
> be translated as "linux municipal" ). The goal of this project is to support 
> the migration to linux in municipal adminstrations. HP is going to provide 
> mainly hardware, from thin clients over notebooks, desktops and servers up to 
> network infrastructure, printers and scanners. Novell will be offering their 
> SuSE Enterprise Server 9 and client distributions, while some associated 
> companys will provide support and special applications. To lower the 
> migration-costs they also have some financing offers, like providing leasing 
> of hardware with a 24-36 month life-span and 0% interest.
> The initative is also accompanied by a website 
> ( http://www.linux-kommunale.de ), which is serving news and some kind of 
> knowledge base about the migration.
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Martín Olivera
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