Linux@Work
Governments
* City of Munich has chosen to migrate its 14,000 desktops to Debian-based LiMux Linux
* The United States Department of Defense uses and develops open source software
* The city of Vienna has chosen to start migrating its desktop PCs to Debian-based Wienux Linux
* Spain has been noted as the furthest along the road to Linux adoption, for example with Linux distribution LinEx
* State owned Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is installing Linux in all of its 20,000 retail branches as the basis for its web server and a new terminal platform.
* In January 2006, law in Venezuela went into effect, mandating a two year transition to open source in all public agencies.
* In April 2006, the US Federal Aviation Administration announced that it had completed a migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in one third of the scheduled time and saved 15 million dollars.
* The Ministry of Defence in Singapore began migrating its computers from Microsoft to free software in 2004, while South Korea, China and Japan agreed to cooperate in creating new Linux-based programs.
* The French Parliament has switched to using Ubuntu on desktop PCs.
* The Government of India has set up a resource centre for Free and Open Source Software managed jointly by C-DAC Chennai and Anna University, Chennai. It has one of its node in Mumbai at VJTI College
* The Federal Employment Office of Germany (Bundesagentur für Arbeit) has migrated 13,000 public workstations from Windows NT to OpenSuse Linux.
* Czech Post (state owned) migrated 4000 servers and 12000 clients to Novell Linux in 2005
Education
* The OLPC XO-1 (previously called the MIT $100 laptop and The Children's Machine), is an inexpensive laptop running Linux, which will be distributed to millions of children as part of the One Laptop Per Child project, especially in developing countries.
* Republic of Macedonia deployed 5,000 Linux desktops running Ubuntu across all 468 public schools and 182 computer labs (December 2005)
* Schools in Bolzano, Italy have switched to a custom distribution of Linux (FUSS Soledad GNU/Linux), which will be used by the 16,000 students in the area when they return on 12 September 2005.
* Brazil has around 20,000 Linux desktops running in elementary and secondary public schools.
* The Netherlands has an initiative called Open Source en standaarden in het onderwijs, "Open source and standards in education".
* Government officials of Kerala, India announced they will use only free software, running on the Linux platform, for computer education, starting with the 2,650 government and government-aided high schools.
* 32,000 students in the US state of Indiana were using Linux as of 2007
* Germany has announced that 560,000 students in 33 universities will migrate to Linux.
* The Philippines has deployed 13,000 desktops of Fedora Linux, the first 10,000 where delivered in December 2007 by ASI. Another 10,000 desktops of Edubuntu and Kubuntu (both subprojects of Ubuntu Linux) are planned.
* Russia announced in October 2007 that all its school computers will run on Linux.[32] This is to avoid cost of licensing current unlicensed software.
* 9,000 computers to be converted to Linux and OpenOffice.org in school district Geneva, Switzerland by September 2008.
* An Indian state Tamil Nadu plans to distribute 100,000 Linux laptops to its students.
Businesses
* Ernie Ball, a company manufacturing guitar strings, and known for its famous Super Slinky guitar strings, has used Linux as its desktop operating system since 2000.
* Novell is undergoing a migration from Windows to Linux. Of its 5500 employees, 50% were successfully migrated as of April, 2006. This was expected to rise to 80% by November.
* Wotif, the Australian hotel booking website, migrated from Windows to Linux servers to keep up with the growth of its business.
* Union Bank of California announced in January 2007 that it would standardize its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in order to lower costs.
* Peugeot, the European car maker, announced plans to deploy up to 20,000 copies of Novell's Linux desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, and 2,500 copies of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, in 2007.
* Mindbridge, a software company, announced in September, 2007 that it had migrated a large number of Windows servers onto a smaller number of Linux servers and a few BSD servers. It claims to have saved "bunches of money."
* JCMconnect.com - an international website design and business communications company, switched all their systems to Linux in 2008 - and have seen a big improvement in the capabilities and potential of the business.
* Virgin America, the low cost U.S. airline, uses Linux to power its in-flight entertainment system, RED.
...Try Linux for yourself and see what it can do for you!
Testimonial and Facts; Source: Wikipedia.
The Linux Operating System is widely used in many workplaces, to accomplish a wide variety of tasks.
Governments
* City of Munich has chosen to migrate its 14,000 desktops to Debian-based LiMux Linux
* The United States Department of Defense uses and develops open source software
* The city of Vienna has chosen to start migrating its desktop PCs to Debian-based Wienux Linux
* Spain has been noted as the furthest along the road to Linux adoption, for example with Linux distribution LinEx
* State owned Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is installing Linux in all of its 20,000 retail branches as the basis for its web server and a new terminal platform.
* In January 2006, law in Venezuela went into effect, mandating a two year transition to open source in all public agencies.
* In April 2006, the US Federal Aviation Administration announced that it had completed a migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in one third of the scheduled time and saved 15 million dollars.
* The Ministry of Defence in Singapore began migrating its computers from Microsoft to free software in 2004, while South Korea, China and Japan agreed to cooperate in creating new Linux-based programs.
* The French Parliament has switched to using Ubuntu on desktop PCs.
* The Government of India has set up a resource centre for Free and Open Source Software managed jointly by C-DAC Chennai and Anna University, Chennai. It has one of its node in Mumbai at VJTI College
* The Federal Employment Office of Germany (Bundesagentur für Arbeit) has migrated 13,000 public workstations from Windows NT to OpenSuse Linux.
* Czech Post (state owned) migrated 4000 servers and 12000 clients to Novell Linux in 2005
Education
* The OLPC XO-1 (previously called the MIT $100 laptop and The Children's Machine), is an inexpensive laptop running Linux, which will be distributed to millions of children as part of the One Laptop Per Child project, especially in developing countries.
* Republic of Macedonia deployed 5,000 Linux desktops running Ubuntu across all 468 public schools and 182 computer labs (December 2005)
* Schools in Bolzano, Italy have switched to a custom distribution of Linux (FUSS Soledad GNU/Linux), which will be used by the 16,000 students in the area when they return on 12 September 2005.
* Brazil has around 20,000 Linux desktops running in elementary and secondary public schools.
* The Netherlands has an initiative called Open Source en standaarden in het onderwijs, "Open source and standards in education".
* Government officials of Kerala, India announced they will use only free software, running on the Linux platform, for computer education, starting with the 2,650 government and government-aided high schools.
* 32,000 students in the US state of Indiana were using Linux as of 2007
* Germany has announced that 560,000 students in 33 universities will migrate to Linux.
* The Philippines has deployed 13,000 desktops of Fedora Linux, the first 10,000 where delivered in December 2007 by ASI. Another 10,000 desktops of Edubuntu and Kubuntu (both subprojects of Ubuntu Linux) are planned.
* Russia announced in October 2007 that all its school computers will run on Linux.[32] This is to avoid cost of licensing current unlicensed software.
* 9,000 computers to be converted to Linux and OpenOffice.org in school district Geneva, Switzerland by September 2008.
* An Indian state Tamil Nadu plans to distribute 100,000 Linux laptops to its students.
Businesses
* Ernie Ball, a company manufacturing guitar strings, and known for its famous Super Slinky guitar strings, has used Linux as its desktop operating system since 2000.
* Novell is undergoing a migration from Windows to Linux. Of its 5500 employees, 50% were successfully migrated as of April, 2006. This was expected to rise to 80% by November.
* Wotif, the Australian hotel booking website, migrated from Windows to Linux servers to keep up with the growth of its business.
* Union Bank of California announced in January 2007 that it would standardize its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in order to lower costs.
* Peugeot, the European car maker, announced plans to deploy up to 20,000 copies of Novell's Linux desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, and 2,500 copies of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, in 2007.
* Mindbridge, a software company, announced in September, 2007 that it had migrated a large number of Windows servers onto a smaller number of Linux servers and a few BSD servers. It claims to have saved "bunches of money."
* JCMconnect.com - an international website design and business communications company, switched all their systems to Linux in 2008 - and have seen a big improvement in the capabilities and potential of the business.
* Virgin America, the low cost U.S. airline, uses Linux to power its in-flight entertainment system, RED.
...Try Linux for yourself and see what it can do for you!
Testimonial and Facts; Source: Wikipedia.
