French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu

Ynot_82 writes "The French national police force, the Gendarmerie Nationale, has spoken about their migration away from the Windows platform to Linux. Estimated to have already saved the force 50 Million Euros, the migration is due to be completed on all 90,000 workstations by 2015. Of the move, Lt. Col. Guimard had this comment: '"Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users. 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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Re: French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubunt

[steelfood]

The more surprising thing is that the French police were able to save anyone at all.

Hello French Air Force, and Navy???

[rstanley]

Now if the French National Police could only talk to the French Air Force, and French Navy, maybe their planes could take off, and their subs could avoid hitting British subs! Long live Linux and Open Source Software! And they get their favorite games as well! And it all just works!!! Go Figure!

french fail at accounting.

[timmarhy]

if you slathering linux zealots actual RTFA source, this claim of 50 million euro saving is arrived at by the commissioner multiplying the cost of the licenses by how many they didn't have to purchase. A text book example of calculating yourself rich. he also claims NO training was needed... so no training of your system admins, or any staff? yeah right.