= Installations =

== Debeka ==

[http://www.debeka.de Debeka] in one of Germanys Top-10 insurance companies.

Initially SmartClient has been developed exclusively for them (in 2001)
and is still in use there (2009),
now managing more then 4000 Linux Desktop Systems.

Fortunately, Debeka has agreed to publishing the SmartClient Framework as Open Source (GPL).


SmartClient has been developed in 2001 for the Debeka Insurance Group.

The initial requirements has been:

    * 3000 seats in 230 location around Germany
    * 1000 Service-Center seats. Each connected via  VPN to the headquarter
    * WAN Bandwidth: 64 kBit/s for up to 10 seats (for updates and if required also full installations)
    * all servers are at the headquarter in Koblenz (Germany). No servers in the branch offices.
    * completly centrally managed (by initially only 2 Linux administrators)

Futher information, see the article 
form the project managers Michael Kulisch (Debeka), Axel Meyer (Debeka) and Jörg Steffens (at this  time [http://www.suse.de Suse], now [http://www.dass-it.de dass IT]))
http://www.dass-it.de/docs/artikel-smartclient-ix-200203.pdf

== Stuttgarter Versicherung ==

  * SmartClient installation managing 900 Linux desktops (April 2004)
    * 600 at the headquarter in Stuttgart (Germany)
    * 250 at 8 other locations
    * 50 home offices
  * complete Linux Desktop including
    * KDE
    * OpenOffice
    * Lotus Notes (using Wine)

== Landesamt für Vermessung und Geobasisinformation Rheinland-Pfalz (LVermGeo) ==

  * SmartClient installation managing around 2000 Linux desktops (Januar 2009)
    * 20 locations
  * complete Linux Desktop including
    * KDE
    * Firefox
    * OpenOffice
    * VMware Player
    * disconnected mode for Laptops
  * Webmin Modules for Client Manegement




= Articles =

== German ==

  * [http://www.dass-it.de/docs/artikel-smartclient-ix-200203.pdf iX Magazin 3/2002: Ausgetauscht - Linux auf 3000 verteilten Arbeitsplätzen]
  * [http://www.computerwoche.de/index.cfm?pageid=256&artid=34312 Computerwoche Nr. 13 vom 29. März 2002: Debeka favorisiert Linux-Clients]
  * [http://www.cio.de/briefings/open_source/805852/index.html CIO 5/2002: Debeka führt Open-Source-System ein - Die Linux-Versicherung]
  * [http://www.novell.com/de-de/news/press/archive/2001/suse_archive/smartclient.html Suse Presserklärung 2001]

== English ==

  * [http://www.osor.eu/case_studies/docs/german-surveying]

= Presentations =

== German ==

  * [http://www3.baden-wuerttemberg.de/sixcms/media.php/1082/P_Binder_bwconboss_01072004.pdf Karl-Eugen Binder (Stuttgarter Versicherung), bwcon:boss (Baden-Württemberg Open Source LayerS): Linux auf dem Desktop]