Case Studies

Case Studies of a number of Open Source implementations both in Local Government, schools and business in the UK and Europe

Birmingham City Council: An implementation of open source software across the library service at Birmingham City Council (BCC) has demonstrated that open source software is a viable alternative to proprietary software.
APLAWS: Cambridge City Council implements APLAWS an Open Source CMS.
Bristol City Council: This report is the first of a number of publications intended to make it easier for Councils to make decisions about whether to migrate to StarOffice/OpenOffice.org.
Open Source in Schools: A large-scale deployment of Open-Source desktops in schools.
Liverpool John Moores University - HP: Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU)
Hungarian Employment Office - HP: An Hungarian Employment Office deploys mixed Linux Windows solution.
University of Oslo - HP: An open source email solution for 60,000 users
Virgin Money - IBM: Increased scalability of e-commerce and credit card systems, while reducing cost of ownership and improving performance
City of Bergen - SUSE: An open source solution for 50,000 users to reduce licensing costs and avoid being tied to a proprietary vendor.
TGen - Intel: Linux on a 512-node cluster to provide improved performance.
Suffolk College: Implementing an Open source email solutions for 18,000 users
PC Reuse Case Study: Reusing PCs as Thin client devices using an open source solution by Cheshire County Council

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