A success story for your information : source : http://www.osor.eu/news/fr-gendarmerie-saves-millions-with-open-desktop-and-web-applications
The French Gendarmerie's gradual migration to a complete open source desktop and web applications has saved millions of euro, says Lieutenant-Colonel Xavier Guimard. "This year the IT budget will be reduced by 70 percent. This will not affect our IT systems." Guimard this Thursday (05/03/2009) in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands gave a presentation on the move from a Microsoft-based to an Ubuntu GNU/Linux-based desktop. The Lieutenant-Colonel was one of the keynote speakers at an annual conference organised by NOiV, the Dutch national resource centre on open source and open standards. Presentation available (pdf, in French) : http://www.noiv.nl/files/xavier_guimard_05032009.pdf -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:[email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
