Easier management is one of the main reasons for the German city of Gummersbach to switch its almost 350 PCs to the open source operating system GNU/Linux, a move that began already four years ago. One of the IT administrators, Dirk Hennrichs: "Our Linux desktops need close to zero maintenance, making them light years easier to manage than their proprietary predecessor."

Better support for the proprietary XML format OOXML will make it easier for public administrations to move to vendor independent and free and open source office applications, say the organisers of the LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org-Workshop, scheduled to take place in Zürich, Switzerland, on 10 and 11 October.

Better support for the proprietary XML format OOXML will make it easier for public administrations to move to vendor independent and free and open source office applications, say the organisers of the LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org-Workshop, scheduled to take place in Zürich, Switzerland, on 10 and 11 October.

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Better support for the proprietary XML format OOXML will make it easier for public administrations to move to vendor independent and free and open source office applications, say the organisers of the LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org-Workshop, scheduled to take place in Zürich, Switzerland, on 10 and 11 October.

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Having an team of experienced and independent testers, timely communicating the development milestones and helping users define their requirements are three of the lessons learned by the IT administrators working on LiMux, the vendor independent and open source IT infrastructure used by the city administration of Munich.

Having an team of experienced and independent testers, timely communicating the development milestones and helping users define their requirements are three of the lessons learned by the IT administrators working on LiMux, the vendor independent and open source IT infrastructure used by the city administration of Munich.

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Having an team of experienced and independent testers, timely communicating the development milestones and helping users define their requirements are three of the lessons learned by the IT administrators working on LiMux, the vendor independent and open source IT infrastructure used by the city administration of Munich.

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The civil servants working for the administration of the German town of Schwäbisch Hall are completely accustomed to working with a vendor independent IT desktop system, based on free and open source software such as Linux. The head of the IT department, Horst Braüner: "They've been using it for ten years and have become accustomed to it. But they also realise it makes them special."

The civil servants working for the administration of the German town of Schwäbisch Hall are completely accustomed to working with a vendor independent IT desktop system, based on free and open source software such as Linux. The head of the IT department, Horst Braüner: "They've been using it for ten years and have become accustomed to it. But they also realise it makes them special."

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The civil servants working for the administration of the German town of Schwäbisch Hall are completely accustomed to working with a vendor independent IT desktop system, based on free and open source software such as Linux. The head of the IT department, Horst Braüner: "They've been using it for ten years and have become accustomed to it. But they also realise it makes them special."

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The website of the Open Source Software (OSS) Competence Centre, a platform for the nationwide exchange of information and experience between IT-Experts, has been expanded under the IT-Investment Programme.

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The website of the Open Source Software (OSS) Competence Centre, a platform for the nationwide exchange of information and experience between IT-Experts, has been expanded under the IT-Investment Programme.

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The website of the Open Source Software (OSS) Competence Centre, a platform for the nationwide exchange of information and experience between IT-Experts, has been expanded under the IT-Investment Programme.

Public administrations that actively use open source, should maintain good contacts with those developing that kind of software, recommends Florian Maier, software developer working for the city of Munich. Such contacts offer good opportunities for the exchange of knowledge, he says. "The community is very important. Public administrations do not have to do software development work alone."

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Public administrations that actively use open source, should maintain good contacts with those developing that kind of software, recommends Florian Maier, software developer working for the city of Munich. Such contacts offer good opportunities for the exchange of knowledge, he says. "The community is very important. Public administrations do not have to do software development work alone."