:ZDNet UK: Large Public-Sector Linux Project Flops
ZDNet UK: Large Public-Sector Linux Project Flops Nov 13, 2006, 19 :30 UTC (16 Talkback[s]) (5604 reads) (Other stories by Richard Thurston)
"A publicly funded Linux project which cost UK taxpayers half-a-million pounds has flopped.
"Birmingham City Council began the project--one of the largest public-sector Linux projects in the UK--in May 2005 to evaluate the potential of open-source software. The council, the largest local authority in the UK, intended to deploy open-source software on 1,500 PCs in libraries across the city.
"But the project has fallen vastly short of expectations, with just 200 Linux PCs being deployed..."
