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ComputerWeekly: Birmingham Council Plans 1,500 Seat Trial of Open Source Desktops

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“Birmingham City Council is to carry out large-scale trials to
evaluate the viability of open source software on its desktop
PCs.

“The council has secured government funding to run 1,500 PCs
using the Linux operating system with Openoffice applications and
Firefox web browsers. The open source trial will include
public-facing PCs in libraries as well as those used to access core
systems in council offices…”


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