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Paris Accelerates Move to Open Source
* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us that the city of Paris is moving to open-source software a little faster than originally intended. As a part of the strategy to 'reduce its dependence on suppliers' they anticipate replacing both server and desktop applications with free and open-source software. From the article: "Earlier this year, volunteers among the city's 46,000 staff were invited to download and install open-source software to their desktops, including the Firefox browser and the Open Office.org productivity suite. Now, the city is planning to migrate all the users of one city department or all of those in one of the city's 20 districts, not just the volunteers, to test a larger migration. The city has 17,000 workstations, up from 12,000 in 2001"
Now that's a new combination...
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
....is what has their experience been during this migration? What are the things they've tripped over? This sort of info would be handy to combat the FUD that the PHB's have stuck in their heads.
Also, is this the largest migration to an open source environment that anybody has heard of? That piece of info would be nice to know.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
was the whole bit about "This fine british paper" that Powell presented. A paper from, suposedly british intelligence origin, describing all the Über-Threats from Iraq and the dangers coming from them. When it hit the news that the entire paper was copy and pasted from an american students essay posted on the internet, related to Desert Storm in 1991 - copied with exact same typos and all - I was laughing my head off for half an hour. I still crack up today just writing about this. ... The sad part is that they usually do.
Absolutely hilarious with cheap and phony shams polititians use to try to get away with things.
"Fine british paper." An instant classic. Absolutely.
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As a matter of fact I've been laughing to tears again the last 5 minutes at the end of this post.
Monthy Python really pales compared to the bizarness of this incident.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Man, it's too bad I wasted all my mod points yesterday - this really deserves a + for informative since it's about a subject where alternatives of any sort are little-known.
I dream of a better world... one in which chickens can cross roads without their motives being questioned.