Extremadura, Spain deploys 80,000 GNOME desktops

[Posted June 18, 2003 by corbet]

The Extremadura regional government has announced (at GUADEC in Dublin) the completion of the deployment of 80,000 computers running the LinEx distribution and GNOME in schools. There's now one system available for every two students. "The Junta of Extremadura has also created 33 computing centers for the general population. The centers feature one-on-one computer assistance, so users who are unfamiliar with computers can learn computer and e-mail basics. The centers have drawn citizens of all ages and walks of life. The oldest user of the centers is 99 years old."

Extremadura, Spain deploys 80,000 GNOME desktops

Posted Jun 18, 2003 17:05 UTC (Wed) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

The all open-source movement needs more victorys like this!...a big aplause for the new heroe "Extrenmadura regional goverment"

Extremadura, Spain deploys 80,000 GNOME desktops

Posted Jun 18, 2003 20:04 UTC (Wed) by ami.ganguli (guest, #9613) [Link]

I found an IDC report that put the PC shipments in Spain at 380,000 during the first quarter of last year. If we assume that 380k X 4 is a reasonable approximation of the size of the Spanish market, then this deal alone is about 5% of annual sales.

That's pretty cool.