The University of Verona in Italy started a three year program last January to migrate most of its more than 4000 PCs to open source. It is likely that the university will switch its PCs to GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu.
The university's migration project is titled OSA - Open Source di Ateneo. "In Italian 'osa' also means 'dare to'" says Dr. Guido Gonzato, one of the IT administrators at the university involved in the project.
The university in January began to educate its staff about open source. The IT administrators are trying not to disrupt routines, and by training the staff they hope to minimise the resistance to change.
During the past few months, courses were held to teach the university's staff about Ubuntu GNU/Linux. "These are basic courses, aimed at people with limited computer expertise and they are going surprisingly well", Gonzatto writes in an emailed message.
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