by renee | Jan 31, 2009 | Other News
The System Administrator of the Department of Finance of the Netherlands Antilles decided to install Ubuntu GNU/Linux on two new servers, saving a lot of money on licenses and a lot of time in maintenance. The servers use Samba and function as fileservers, and...
by renee | Jan 27, 2009 | Other News
In an answer (Dutch, PDF) to questions asked by political party ‘GroenLinks’, Dutch minister Ronald Plasterk refuses to pay software licenses for the Netherlands Antilles. In his answer, the Dutch Minister states that the Governement of the Netherlands...
by renee | Dec 5, 2008 | Other News
Questions from the Dutch political party ‘GroenLinks’ about the plan to ask money from the Dutch Ministry of Education to pay for software licenses in the Netherlands Antilles. Since the Netherlands has accepted a policy that prefers Open Source above...
by renee | Nov 25, 2008 | Other News
Amsterdam uses license fee savings to invest in Open Source. See this article (Dutch) http://webwereld.nl/articles/53684/amsterdam-steekt-microsoft-besparingen-in-open-source.html
by renee | Oct 24, 2008 | Other News
Fatum, an insurance company with more than 200 employees, seriously considers the use of Open Source in their IT-environment. Open Source Software is an economically viable option, according to Perry van der Wolde, manager IT infrastructure at Fatum. OSS is often more...
by renee | Oct 23, 2008 | Other News
The City Council of Amsterdam approved open source as the ideal software for all of its 15.000+ workstations and servers. See http://www.osor.eu/news/nl-amsterdam-approves-open-source-desktop and...
