Open Source Observatory June 2014
All the Open Source Observatory (OSOR.eu) headlines from June 2014, transmogrified into clickable links to the articles.
| Extremadura health care has switched to open source | Leipzig is switching to open source office suites |
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| The desktop computer systems of government healthcare organisations in the Spanish region of Extremadura all rely on free and open source software solutions. Over the past year, close to 10,000 computer workstations in public health care organisations have migrated to a customised version of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. | The German city of Leipzig is switching to using open source suites of office productivity tools: Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice. It expects that in the first five years the anticipated savings will be swallowed by the exit costs associated with the proprietary software used by the city. Starting in 2017, however, the city expects to lower its IT costs by some 100,000 euro, says Lars Greifzu, responsible for marketing and sales at Lecos, the city-owned IT service provider. |
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Gijs Hillenius
Context for Digital Government
Policy specialist on open source in public services, knowlegde transfer expert