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Howard County Library Migrates to Open Source

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The Howard County Library in Columbia, Maryland has successfully deployed Groovix on 284 customer computers.  Groovix provides a Public Access computing software that turns any computer into a secure public workstation.  The Groovix desktop environment is based on Ubuntu Linux.

“In order to exceed customer expectations and expand access to library collections and services and contain hard costs for software licenses and computer hardware, Howard County Library uses a wide-range of open source solutions on its customer and staff computers.”

The Howard County Library is committed to Open Source software whenever feasible.  What are the reasons for using Open Source? Should not surprise anyone.

  • Ease of Use
  • Compatibility
  • Stability
  • Cost Effectiveness

Because of their success, I have a feeling they may become the beacon light, guiding other libraries across the country on the same route.

One Response to “Howard County Library Migrates to Open Source”

  1. tovorinok Says:
    July 5th, 2007 at 7:06 am

    Hello

    Great book. I just want to say what a fantastic thing you are doing! Good luck!

    G’night

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