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Pioneering Desktop Linux Project Put On Ice

Pioneering Desktop Linux Project Put On Ice

Postby rippinchikkin » Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:18 pm

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By Graeme Wearden
September 5, 2006, 9:27 AM PT

Ambitious plans by the Norwegian city of Bergen to move to an open-source desktop environment have been suspended. Ole-Bjorn Tuftedal, special adviser on contracts and technology for Bergen, said Monday that the desktop Linux migration would not happen for at least the next two years. Tuftedal, though, is still confident that the migration will happen eventually.

Bergen announced plans in 2004 to migrate its administration and educational servers to Linux--which Tuftedal says has now been successfully completed. The next stage of the project was to be a Linux migration on the desktop. The suspension of this project has been reported by analysts as evidence that open-source software isn't ready for mass deployment on the desktop.

But Tuftedal claims that the Bergen administration had recently decided to concentrate its resources on an ongoing "e-government" portal, which would give the citizens better access to key civic services. Over the next two years, 50 to 80 services will be made available to the citizens through this portal, which will run on Linux servers. But Tuftedal admitted that the migration has proved to be more complicated than originally assumed.

"We are quite a lean organization, so consequently we cannot easily manage to do major changes to the desktop systems of our employees and do other large projects at the same time," Tuftedal told ZDNet UK. "The services for citizens have to be the priority." A further complication is that Bergen did not receive government funding to finance an evaluation project for the Linux desktop migration project.

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