GNOME Deployments
This page is a work in progress. Please add resources on listed GNOME deployments, and add unlisted deployments, particularly in government, schools and the public sector.
Note: There was some feedback that the bigger deployments lack credibility. We should try to get back-up documentation for all of the deployments we list here. Try to refer to substantial press reports.
We want believable, compelling stories. It's not enough to know that a story is true - you have to show that it's true by including secondary detail, background, human interest, personalities and hopes. The Board is working with the AdvisoryBoard to get real details of some large-scale deployments, but in the meantime we need to tell the smaller stories that we have access to. So tell us the stories of the colleges, small businesses, charities, etc, that are using GNOME successfully. MurrayCumming. See also questions of GNOME deployments.
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Europe
Austria
Pangea immigrant/refugee support center (report), Linz. Mostly an internet cafe, using GNOME on thin clients and terminal server.
Belgium
- Dupedi Jérôme Warnier of Beeznest (a company specialising in GNU/Linux) describes the migration of a small to medium size business (75 people) from Windows and Mac to Debian GNU/Linux running GNOME and Mac.
Germany
- Siemens Business Group, Munich
According to an interview with Chris Gulker, Acrobat product manager at Adobe Inc. in San Jose, Calif., Siemens Business Group switched to GNOME with the Evolution and OpenOffice.org, instead of upgrading to a new Windows version.
Ireland
- Allied Irish Banks AIB, Ireland's second largest bank, has agreed to migrate 7,500 desktops to Sun's JDS, beating out Microsoft.
Italy
- South Tyrol province of Bolzano School District All 70 of the province's private and public schools, 16,000 students in total, will be using GNOME running on a customized Debian GNU/Linux distribution starting September 2005. 20,000 Live CDs will also be created for the students and teachers to take home.
Macedonia
- Countrywide deployment of GNOME in computer labs in 492 primary and secondary schools, some University labs and NGO's. The distribution is Ubuntu Linux. The deployment is a result of a project involving the Macedonian Ministry of Education and Science, a local ISP - On.Net, EDC (Project E-schools) and MKConnects (USAID project).
Specific info by municipalities and sites @ http://www.mkconnects.org Extensive interview on the project at gnomejournal: http://gnomejournal.org/article/33/macedonia-deploys-5000-gnome-desktops-in-public-schools
Spain
- Extremadura and Andalucía school districts
In 2003, the ministry for education in the Spanish region of Extremadura began rolling out GNOME desktops to 80,000 students, with plans for a further 240,000 to follow.
Update: As of July 2005, there are over 200,000 GNOME-based desktops deployed in the regions of Andalucia and Extremadura (source: Junta de Andalucia) servicing an estimated 400,000 students. There are plans to increase that number over the coming years.
Case study: http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/1637
United Kingdom
- National Health Service (NHS) National Health Service (NHS) purchased licenses for 5,000 desktops, using Sun's JDS, as a "tactical deployment". In Sun's terms, this is a trial that may end with the deployment of JDS for "800,000 computers used by the health service's 1 million employees".
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South America
Brazil
- Sao Paulo telecenters Sao Paulo's telecenters cater to 400,000 users, and use GNOME exclusively for all of their desktops.
- Itaipu - Foz de Iguacu Itaipu is the world's largest hydro-electric power plant. Situated near the border with Paraguay, 90% of its workers use GNOME.
Itaipu migrates to GNU/Linux (Portugese) --Couldn't follow the link. LeonardoFontenelle 2006-09-20
- The Digital Inclusion Bus A community project, in conjunction with the Brazilian government, installed 12 PCs running GNOME on Ubuntu in a bus, which will travel around communities teaching basic computing skills.
The project's home page (in Portugese) --Couldn't find information about the project in this page. LeonardoFontenelle, 2006-09-20
- Bahia Infocenters
There are 100 infocenters in Bahia with 75,000 users. In the next 2 months, more 200 infocenters will be deployed in over 200 cities of the state. Each infocenter has 10 computers, all of them use a brazilian customized Debian distribution and GNOME as their desktop environment.
Some photos: http://public.fotki.com/libertarios/zadig/infocentro_steve_biko/ --Couldn't follow the link. LeonardoFontenelle, 2006-09-20
Asia
Australia
- Pembroke School, Adelaide, South Australia
GNOME 2.8 on Ubuntu desktops installed in two labs in Middle School Resource Centre, centrally managed using getupdates.
- Roy Weston Real Estate
Roy Weston Midland & Hills and Roy Weston Swan Valley uses GNOME on Ubuntu workstations for all its sales reps.
China
- Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education
Sun Wah Linux will be installed on 140,000 desktops in schools. Their offering is Debian and GNOME based.
- Chinese Government The Chinese government has agreed to deploy one million JDS (GNOME based) desktops starting in 2004, and could eventually have as many as 200 million JDS installs.
North America
USA
- Largo, Florida deploys GNOME in municipal police force
- - 900 users in an environment where reliability is essential - Tablet in-car interface for municipal police force
- Zumiez, a 1200 employee clothing company based in Seattle, migrated its entire point-of-sale computing infrastructure to the GNOME based Ximian Desktop in 2002.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) uses GNOME on as many as a couple thousand desktops (this is according to employees of a company doing custom GTK+ development for them who made this claim at LinuxWorld Boston 2005)
Canada
silverorange, a small (staff of ~11) web development & design firm from Prince Edward Island, Canada is using Gnome (and other f/oss) on the majority of laptops/desktops:
Other resources which may help
