French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu

Re:French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu by mileszs on Thursday March 12, 2009 @09:42AM (#513404)

They switched to OOo in 2005, and to Firefox and Thunderbird a year later, according to this article: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH0...

You were right. They moved their 'Human Resource' application to the browser at some point, as well. See this article: http://www.osor.eu/news/fr-gendarmerie-saves-millions-with-o...

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Re:French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu by sangaya on Thursday March 12, 2009 @11:48AM (#513577)

Thanks for the link to that article on osor.eu, on that page was a link to the case study: http://www.osor.eu/case_studies/towards-the-freedom-of-the-o...

"the project is one of several similar migrations of French public bodies. To mention just a some examples: the French National Assembly in 2007 decided to run Ubuntu on their 1145 workstations; the Ministry of Agriculture and Fishery switched their servers to the Mandriva GNU/Linux distribution in 2005; the Paris council will use several open souce applications on their laptops, as decided in June, 2008. These developments thus clearly show how open source software is used increasingly in the French public sector."

Apparently they aren't the first in France to move to OSS so the interoperability is easier to handle.

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