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 LinEx- An Alternative on OSS    Vázquez de Miguel, Luis Millán   

LinEx- An Alternative on OSS

Abstract

Extremadura Government (Spain) launched its strategy on OSS in 2000, as a key element to ensure the sustainability of its strategy to IS. The strategy, called LinEx, is addressed to: the educational system, the regional administration and the enterprises. To ensure the general use of OSS, LinEx has an user-centric design, easy to install and to use. LinEx consists in a Operative System and a series of apps that match with the needs of the users. -- LinEx's goal is the independence of the Public Administration from a single provider. OSS allows the Government to decide when and how to launch new initiatives and programmes. -- LinEx's success depends on enterprises able to provide services and products based on OSS. Some PC providers have already began to offer their products with LinEx instead of Microsoft and had improved their sales in a 37% of their total sales. LinEx is being used in the Business Incubators supported by the regional government. -- LinEx has been distributed in 800 schools and to the general public trough 150.000 CDs and the web site has reached 92.731 of users who have download the LinEx package. In Extremadura LinEx is already a software alternative.