GNOME Deployments

Contributors: Please add resources on listed GNOME deployments, and add to our list of deployments, particularly in government, schools and the public sector. Try to get back-up documentation for all of the deployments we list here and refer to substantial press reports whenever possible. See also questions of GNOME deployments for more information on describing deployments.

Europe

Austria

Belgium

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

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.

    Wikinews Reference (including references to other articles)

Macedonia

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 (link broken, was that this: http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/servlets/Doc?id=1641 ?) Case study: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/casestudies/Andalusia-deploys-220000-Ubuntu-desktops-in-schools-throughout-the-region

  • Update: In 2010 the GNOME-based Guadalinex EDU distro is running on more than a half million computers of the Andalusian ICT School network. And the Education Department of the Junta de Andalucía has started a new program called “ICT School 2.0” in collaboration with the Spanish Education Ministry, for delivering 10” netbooks to students. In 2010 it has delivered 173,500 netbooks to students with Guadalinex EDU and 17,000 laptops/netbooks to teachers.

Case study: http://people.gnome.org/~pcutler/gj/GNOME%20Success%20Story_%20Andalusia.pdf

  • Update: In 2011 a new GNOME 3-based Guadalinex version codenamed GECOS (Guadalinex Edicion Corporativa eStandar) has been developed. This new version is intended for public administration offices. The server side offers a solution based in chef for managing the configuration of the clients. A pilot program has been started and it is started the process of being adopted in more offices in the organization.

  • Reference

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

Asia

Australia

China

India

North America

USA

  • As of 2012, Dreamworks Animation Studios, creator of animated films like "Shrek" and "Madagascar", has implemented Red Hat Enterprise Linux running GNOME desktop throughout over 2,000 servers and workstations. This is one of GNOME's most high profile deployments.
  • GNOME forms the basis of the corporate desktop used by Red Hat’s approximately 6,300 employees as of February, 2014.
  • In 2012, The Computer Science Department at Colorado State University is running ~350 workstations with the GNOME 3 desktop. Susmit Shannigrah reports that most of the machines are using GNOME shell 3.0.2, and are updated frequently.
  • Largo, Florida deploys GNOME in 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

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Engagement/GnomeDeployments (last edited 2014-05-23 15:28:40 by MarinaZ)