I like to collect stories and articles about how people (and businesses) go about switching to Linux (or open source software). Up to now, my collection is sitting in the digitalequivalent of boxes, folders, and piles that sit around my office and gather dust. But now, here's my shiny new box of stories. Enjoy!
- Your new IT budget: $10
- Linux is Not Windows
- Confessions of a Linux Fan: 10 Things You Might Want To Know Before Switching Over To Linux
- Open Source and Microsoft Free
- Mindbridge Switches to Linux Saves Bunches of Money is an item on Slashdot; they point to the article at Linux.com about Mindbridge, a company that sells software/services to the enterprise.
- Slashdot: IBM Saves $250M Running Linux On Mainframes. Of course, IBM's been behind Linux for years now, but this is good news (original article in Network World: IBM saves $250 million consolidating Linux servers on to mainframes).
- Slashdot: Venezula Producing Its Own Linux PCs references this article: Venezuela Launches Sale of "Bolivarian" Computers about the Venezualan government rolling out Chinese hardware with Linux on top.
- HP is starting to sell Linux PCs... in Australia. Here's the Slashdot article: Hewlett-Packard Brings Linux To Select Desktops and here's the Desktop Linux story: HP releases its first mass-market Linux PC.
- US Department of Energy Installing Redhat Linux
- A NEW CHAPTER IN JUDICIARY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (Text
of speech delivered by justice Yatindra Singh on 9.7.2007 on the
occasion of inauguration of the Allahabad High Court Website and
launching of E-court project) The take-away message: The Allahabad High Court is getting laptops with Linux and OpenOffice. - Here's a blog devoted just to following the Linux conversion story as it happens: Who is switching to Linux?
- (more coming!)
