Aug 28

33 German Universities Migrate to Suse Linux

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Around 560,000 students in 33 German Universities will soon be running SuSe Linux Enterprise Desktop Platform! Covered at ComputerWeekly.

The move is designed to give the colleges a cheaper sytem whilst also giving them a more flexible IT architecture when compared to other proprietary software.

I think universities in the United States should be sending some of their IT guys to Germany to see how well this is going to work out.  A definite thumbs up to Germany and Novell!

Jun 20

59% of German Companies Use Open Source Software

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German businesses are world leaders in the use of open source at 59%, followed by Great Britain at 48% and US/Canada at 38%. The study was conducted by business intelligence specialists at Actuate.

“The study therefore concluded that Open Source has become a strategic issue for many companies. It also helped that more than 70 percent of those surveyed see open software as the preferred option when new software is rolled out”