Nothing will slow the progress and increased adoption of open software. What
was traditionally viewed as developer and infrastructure tools has quickly
infiltrated the enterprise environment.
The public sector was one of the first to initiate the trend. For example
400,000 workstations in the French administration have already migrated to
Open Office. Other players of the public sector have also started to switch
to open source technologies: in the United States (City of Largo in Florida,
University of Nebraska, Colorado Department of Human Services, City of
Chicago, etc.), in France (National Gendarmerie, Ministry of Finance,
National Assembly, etc.), and the rest of the world (Cities of Munich and
Amsterdam, Swedish National Police, libraries in Romania, schools in
Macedonia, Russia and Venezuela; etc.). Even if, according to a study by the
University of Maastrich... (more)