French National Police Switch 37,000 Desktop PCs to Linux

Re:French National Police Switch 37,000 Desktop PCs to Linux by yannickmahe on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @06:01AM (#6475162)

Didn't they just move from Defense to Interior?

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Re:French National Police Switch 37,000 Desktop PCs to Linux by masklinn on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @06:03AM (#6475167)

For budgetary/employment yes (back in 2009), but status-wise they remain a military force.

So they're really halfway, under both defense and interior.

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Re:French National Police Switch 37,000 Desktop PCs to Linux by venomsnake on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @06:52AM (#6475297)

So they can influence and share that know how with both departments? This could be interesting. I am really surprised that they managed to do it and it will be an easier sell now with the MS/NSA collaboration thing. So maybe we could expect other big deployments of that kind.

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