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Bergen's CTO: Why We Moved To Linux
News The City of Bergen recently announced plans to migrate many of its servers to SUSE Linux. We spoke to the city's CTO, Ole-Bjorn Tuftedal, to get his take on why Norway's second-largest city was making the move.
[June 15, 2004, 17:55]
Leaner, Meaner Linux Makes Savings For Bergen
News The City of Bergen is now midway through its migration to Linux on the server, and is looking forward to making very significant savings through moving away from Windows. Ole-Bjørn Tuftedal, the city's chief technology officer, said on Thursday...
[November 12, 2004, 15:00]
Leaner, Meaner Linux Makes Savings For Bergen
Talkback Yeah, do you believe the news (just the facts) or the ad?
[November 17, 2004, 11:23]
Bergen's CTO: Why We Moved To Linux
Talkback Life is silly in Linux land. Stick with windows if you want stuff to work without spending hundreds of hours "configuring"
[June 16, 2004, 17:57]
Bergen's CTO: Why We Moved To Linux
Talkback Its good to see common sense has prevailed. Theres much more to Linux than its low price - namely real security that just works and excellent stability with uptimes in excess of a year. Its utter madness to waste such huige amount of money on...
[June 16, 2004, 23:12]
Bergen's CTO: Why We Moved To Linux
Talkback To McSpank, How did you become an IT Manager ? Statements like that are blatantly ignorant.
[June 17, 2004, 10:20]
Bergen's CTO: Why We Moved To Linux
Talkback We have had similar experiences albeit on a much smaller scale. Our migration to Linux started about 7 years ago when we moved from dial-up Internet access to a dedicated IP line. We were already using Netware for our LAN infrastructure and simply...
[June 17, 2004, 11:24]
Bergen's CTO: Why We Moved To Linux
Talkback I guess in some situations it makes sense. Is this the sign of a wave? First Munich, now for the world!
[June 27, 2004, 14:57]
Leaner, Meaner Linux Makes Savings For Bergen
Talkback .and to the left of the article: a Get the FUD ad, saying "Ask the people evaluating it". Hilarious :-)
[November 12, 2004, 18:47]
Leaner, Meaner Linux Makes Savings For Bergen
Talkback At last, a real-life Linux implementation case study, rather than one funded and written by a certain convicted monopolist.
[November 12, 2004, 15:12]
Pioneering Desktop Linux Project Put On Ice
News Ambitious plans by Bergen to move to an open source desktop environment have been suspended. Ole-Bjorn Tuftedal, special advisor on contracts and technology at Bergen, said on Monday that the desktop Linux migration would not happen for at least...
[September 5, 2006, 16:10]
Migrating To Desktop Linux? Take A Look At Norway
Talkback Bergen should plan to introduce or migrate to Linux, the Lady announced. As an old SS who knows that we burned down Bergen and founded Suomi all Finns wear even today SS-Uniforms - I find it lucky that we remain what we always were:
[January 3, 2005, 14:13]
IT Priorities Conference: One Week Left For Early Birds
News Among the highlights will be Ole-Bjorn Tuftedal, the chief technology officer who led the Norwegian city of Bergen's decision to replace existing core Windows and Unix systems with Linux. ZDNet UK readers will remember that Bergen plans to install...
[August 23, 2004, 17:45]
Migrating To Desktop Linux? Take A Look At Norway
News Before deciding to migrate to the open source OS, Bergen carried out tests at three schools comparing Linux with Windows. From these tests Bergen found that both operating systems could be used in the schools, but that there were various advantages...
[December 30, 2004, 12:55]
Norway's Second City Embraces Linux
News In a move that echoes an earlier high-profile migration by the German city of Munich, authorities in the Norwegian city of Bergen have opted to replace existing core Windows and Unix systems with Linux.
[June 15, 2004, 15:15]
Who's In Charge Of IT In London?
News While European cities such as Paris, Munich and Bergen in Norway have appointed chief information officers and chief technology officers, London has no one individual with over-arching responsibility for implementation of technology according to...
[July 6, 2004, 17:05]
Outrage At Gates' Knighthood
Talkback He would rather prefer being the Governor of Munich or Bergen :-) ! Somebody wrote: I think Sir William should be given more honours - how about making him Sheriff of Nottingham? No, I say.
[March 3, 2005, 19:56]
Licensing Anger Driving Users Towards Linux
News Ole-Bjorn Tuftedal, chief technology officer for the City of Bergen, said some software companies are seeking ever more invasive control of a user's system, and greater profits, through their pricing.
[November 8, 2004, 15:28]
Linux On Desktop Will Be 'cheaper And More Secure', Claim Vendors
News Ole-Bjorn Tuftedal, the chief technical officer for the City of Bergen, Norway, which carried out a major Linux implementation in June this year, had a simple answer. Bergen's Tuftedal said that it was easier to set up a Linux desktop so that it...
[September 28, 2004, 16:25]
Novell: We Are All 'Amazon' Citizens
News Novell currently has several high-profile government customers including the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in the UK, and the City of Bergen in Norway. Bergen recently announced a high-profile move away from Windows and onto Suse Linux.
[September 13, 2004, 16:00]
