Danish school to switch to open source-based cloud PCs

Vía https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/70124

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The Danish town of Ballerup this autumn wants to switch students and teachers to cloud-based PCs. This includes moving the school to using online applications, according to a report published today by Version2, a Danish IT news site.

The municipality has published a request for tender, asking for cloud-based school computers, that come with a free operating system and free access to a cloud-based office suite, adding as an example Chromebook, which is based on open source. The contract's estimated value is 1,1 million Danish kroner (about 150,000 euro).

• Open source observatory

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