By Pia Heikkila, 19 June 2002 17:22
NEWS A group of Finnish MPs have suggested a nationwide adoption of the Linux operating system.
The MPs have drawn up a proposal which suggests all public services and institutions should choose Linux instead of Windows to be used as a chief operating system in their IT systems.
The MPs estimate the government would save around E26m (£16.7m) per year if all government offices, hospitals, law enforcement and educational institutions were to embrace the penguin.
The city of Turku in Finland was earlier this year considering moving to Linux across the town's administrative offices after publishing an investigative report, which detailed the city's IT spending.
The report concluded the MS Office product family is too pricey for Turku's IT budget and the open source software would provide a cheaper alternative.
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