The largest open source project in Switzerland runs "smoothly, the conversion is a complete success and a major step forward", summarizes Kurt Bader, director of the Office for Computer Science and Organization (Amts fur Informatik und Organisation - AIO).

Among the decision factors as stability, security, virus immunity, flexibility, liberation of market constraints and objective savings, two arguments stood out:

"The independence from suppliers and its business policy played an important role with our decision. Beyond that, the low cost of optimization was an important argument for the free operating system Debian GNU / Linux".

In a 2000 desktops environment, the Debian GNU / Linux allowed 70% savings in costs.

"The substantial success factor is the direct communication with our coworkers", said Bader.
All department representatives and or users were involved since the conceptual analysis.
The stability of the system and the potential savings helped to convince the government of the canton of Solothurn to stay with the plan for the next four to eight years.
Read the complete article at Debian Times.