Am Friday 05 March 2004 19:31 schrieb Frank Küster: > Therefore I would be glad to hear whether any towns in Europe have yet > done the switch and chosen Debian for that. I do not know, isn't the Extramadura project based on Debian? (Guadalinux). That's about 80.000 desktops IIRC.
> And for sure some commercial support would be needed - does anybody know > of a company that could give support for a Debian-bases system for an > administration? Since I live in Freiburg, Germany, not only german Hewlett-Packard officially provides support for Debian. I bet all major IT (IBM, Sun) or smaller local companies (Debis, Siemens, ...) would support Debian if the price justifies that. However, a project like that needs a huge project management capacity, especially within the change management field (See malicious resistance in Munich.) It makes little difference which distribution is chosen as the base. Although we favour Debian, I think city administrations do best with partners like IBM/Novel-SuSE. Krisztian Mark Szentes -- produktivIT - Open-Source Solution Provider Siebenbrunnengasse 55/7 A-1050 Wien http://www.produktivit.com
