[nzlug] Linux in NZ District Councils?

[Richard Thomas]

Most Linux installations within Councils are likely to be servers rather 
than desktops so the reduction in MS licencing costs are likely to be 
minimal.  It's the desktop OS, CALs and user application costs that really 
add up.


On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, tich at clad.co.nz wrote:

> 
> There are quite a few councils in New Zealand using F/LOSS (usually Linux) 
> in their systems.  Councils which use NCS software for their financials 
> and regs will be running Linux (probably RHLE) unless they haven't 
> migrated from SCO (but I think they all have now).
> 
> 
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Dirk Pilat wrote:
> 
> > G'day all,
> > 
> > here in wonderful North Otago we recently had a rather futile attempt at
> > getting the guy in charge for IT (not the actual system administrator,
> > although he was just as aghast) interested in adding a F/LOSS underbelly to
> > the council's IT infrastructure to reduce the horrendous licensing fees this
> > rather cash strapped council is paying to M$.
> > 
> > To add some details to a submission to the annual plan and prove that I am not
> > a complete loon, does somebody out there know of councils using F/LOSS in NZ?
> > 
> > I have met a number of sysadmins from Australian district councils using Linux
> > within the council's IT infrastructure at LCA2007, so I wouldn't be surprised
> > if there are Kiwi equivalents.
> > 
> > Thanks for your help,
> > 
> > 
> > Dirk
> > 
> > 
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