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  • 28 Mar 09
    lhaslauer
    Liane Haslauer

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    • French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu


      A recent report has revealed that France's national police force has saved an estimated 50 million euros since 2004 by adopting open source software and migrating a portion of the organization's workstations to Ubuntu Linux. They plan to roll out the Linux distro to all 90,000 of their workstations by 2015.

    • The Gendarmerie began its transition to open source software in 2005 when it replaced Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org across the entire organization. It gradually adopted other open source software applications, including Firefox and Thunderbird. After the launch of Windows Vista in 2006, it decided to phase out Windows and incrementally migrate to Ubuntu.
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  • 18 Mar 09
    pranesh
    Pranesh Prakash



    A recent report has revealed that France's national police force has saved an estimated 50 million euros since 2004 by adopting open source software and migrating a portion of the organization's workstations to Ubuntu Linux. They plan to roll out the Linux distro to all 90,000 of their workstations by 2015.

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  • 13 Mar 09
    joancdoina
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    Ars Technica article on the migration by France's Gendarmerie Nationale to open source software and Ubuntu. The effort started in 2005 by putting OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird and some other open source applications on the desktops across the entire organization. They then started rolling out Ubuntu. In March of 2009, they have 5,000 workstations running Ubuntu and plan to have all 90,000 converted by 2015. Good example of a phased in/out situation.

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  • dcorking
    David Corking

    They would say that wouldn't they? All the same, this story rings true with me.

    • Lt. Col. Guimard. "Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority."
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    Marc Lijour

    A recent report has revealed that France's national police force has saved an estimated 50 million euros since 2004 by adopting open source software and migrating a portion of the organization's workstations to Ubuntu Linux. They plan to roll out the Linu

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