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French Parliament To Go Open Source
dhoyte writes, "Newsfactor.com reports that next June the French parliament will be switching from Microsoft to open source products such as Linux for desktops and servers and OpenOffice for day-to-day documents. They see it as a cost-cutting measure." The French have not settled on a Linux distribution yet. The article quotes an analyst voicing a note of caution: "'The evidence on the cost savings attributable to a switch to Linux has been mixed,' according to Chris Swenson, director of software industry analysis at research group NPD. 'There has been some evidence that companies have to spend a good deal on training and support after you deploy...'"
"I don't see any reason why they would use Mandriva over anything else, other than Mandriva being French."
haha you dont really seem to be familiar with the frogs do you?
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
I mean c'mon...gotta work that cliche in somehow.
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> Although I am a little bit skeptical about news that states large organisations will be switching to open source.
Of course it won't go through, they will talk tough and then surrender to Microsoft! This isn't just a French outfit, this is the fricking French Government. They know it is in their national best interest but they won't be able to help themselves.
Ok, now that I have done the o.b. French bashing......
Like all of the other large rollouts that get announced to great fanfare and then get abandoned to even greater press releases, white papers and case studies, Microsoft will go in and make em an offer they won't refuse. Before losing such a high profile installation they will be willing to give it away (so long as the terms stay 'undisclosed') with free support and who would turn that deal down? Anyone with half a brain and/or a concern for the public good would, but last time I checked Parliments (or Congress/Legislatures) are filled with politicians so there ya are.
So far the almost all of the high profile large rollouts outside the server space that have made it to reality have been in point of sale competing against DOS, SCO or hoary old embedded platforms. Seeing a lot of pos installs though, getting fairly common to see a redhat logo or kde gear in the corner with a terminal emulator filling the bulk of the desktop. Apparently Microsoft won't give freebies away to keep those installs.
Democrat delenda est
cliched humor... moldy like french cheese.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.