Well Documented Open Source Business Case?

PeteQC asks: "I'm currently working on a project and I need solid and well documented case studies about actual implementation of open source in an enterprise (failure or success). My goal is to use the grounded theory to build a scientific model on Open Source adoption. I've searched through the web, but the only good case I found was the Beaumont Hospital Case. (Which was also published in IEEE Software, January/February edition). I'd like to know if Slashdot knows of other well-documented case studies which I may use? I'm looking for a link to a web site or a reference to a specialized publication, but all assistance will be welcomed."

St. George 911

[(mandos)]

I recall hearing about the St. George UT area 911 services moving to OSS a while back with a bit of success. Google around for it. For reference St. George is at the bottom of UT, about an hour east of Vegas.

PostgreSQL

[Bistronaut]

The PostgreSQL advocacy site [postgresql.org] has some case studies about its adoption. Most of them are pretty terse, but the PDF ones are more in-depth.

Re:I'd be more interested to see...

[PeteQC]

Yes, that would be an interesting study to.

But now I'll stick to my subject... (maybe later)

Largo, Florida

[Kojo]

I recall Newsforge doing stories on this city that made the switch. Here's the link [newsforge.com]. Newsforge and Linux.com are good places to look for this sort of thing. From a research perspective, you may be able to find stories, but you'll probably have to document them yourself.

Re:Largo, Florida

[PeteQC]

Yeah I know i will have to document them... I want already written cases but i'll have to write somes on my own too...

ball

[oo_waratah]

There was a guy ball or something that got fined by Microsoft and threw out all M$ proucts. This is the major one I know of.

Re:ball

[Anonymous Coward]

Rockin' on without Microsoft

http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html?tag =l h

Re:ball

[ldspartan]

His name is Sterling Ball, the company is Ernie Ball. They make guitar related things. Look via google.

--
Phil.

Start by drilling down through the Canadian report

[leonbrooks]

Pick some names from it [e-cology.ca] and go hunting for more detail. OSIA [osia.net.au] has some other useful links.

The K12LTSP site...

[tcopeland]

...has case studies [k12ltsp.org] on Linux Terminal Server Project deployments in schools.

Not business case studies, but still might yield some useful results...

Companies that use open source

[JaF893]

Google is built on Linux, Amazon is built on linux, Yahoo is built on FreeBSD and Salesforce is built on Linux. Perhaps if you did a few searches you might be able to find some intersting articles. For example I found a page about Yahoo & FreeBSD [trieste.it]

Re:Companies that use open source

[PeteQC]

These kind of pages are easy to fing I know. But well documented business case are harder to find. (You may click on the link to Beaumont hospital in the article to see an example of a good business case.

Brazil, Banrisul

[e.colli]

I'm using for a long time the Linux ATM. There are several articles [linux.org] in the net. To me it's an interesting project.

Do libraries count ?

[pphrdza]

There's a Newsforge story [newsforge.com] about Howard County Public Library. They were also written up in an ALA publication.

David A. Wheeler's Why OSS/FS?Look at the Numbers!

[NZheretic]

Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers! [dwheeler.com].

Munich

[squisher]

Not completed yet, but it would definately be worth watchin what happens in Munich, Germany, which switched over to Linux. Google for it, there should be lots of material (although some in German of course...)