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French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu

Posted by timothy on from the justified-disdain dept.

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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  1. Euros by Enderandrew · · Score: 0, Redundant

    France completely switched to the Euro years back. I was there. The article even mentions it was Euros. But I should expect people on /. to RTFA.

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  2. Re:No, that's not what they did by InsertWittyNameHere · · Score: 0, Redundant

    QUICK! Mod him down!

    He's ruining The Year of The Linux Desktop(TM)!

  3. Re:Duh by Daengbo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But, OO doesn't come with Outlook. That's the only problem I've seen for some places so far.

    I know I'm in the minority on Slashdot for this one, but if I were setting up a new small business right now, I'd be using Google Apps or Zoho ... probably Google. Pay for the required Internet service and $50/user/year.

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