At 00:56 16/03/02 -0000, William Anderson wrote: <snip> >sounds like they've been spending cash in linuxcarelike volumes, and their >IPO obviously didn't work out as expected (why the hell did they float in >France instead of siting it somewhere more useful like the US or UK ...) >
AIR, France has a law requiring public sector bodies to use open-source systems unless it can be shown that there is no open-source product or that an open source product would have a greater TCO than its commercial counterpart.....which seems remarkably sensible to me. Of course that may be nothing at all to do with why... Vive la revolution! Colin -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
