[nzlug] Linux in NZ District Councils?

[Richard Thomas]

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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