French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu - Ars Technica

The French national police force, the Gendarmerie Nationale, has spoken about their migration away from the Window$ 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... more

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Rated by keflash on Nov 02, 8:52pm

More and more governments and companies are realizing that they can save TAXPAYER dollars by switching to Linux.
Rated by djDeathx on Nov 01, 12:07pm

score! there we go!! about time the world is making the right choices!!!
Rated by Phelsuma on Oct 17, 12:50pm

The world is getting better every day!
Rated by ericpaul on Aug 05, 2:08pm

The French national police force, the Gendarmerie Nationale, has spoken about their migration away from the Window$ 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 Linux, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority. This is one of the biggest Window$ to Linux transitions ever. More worldwide Linux successes: http://www.linuxwins.com/
Rated by Northley on Mar 13 2009, 10:16am

Woo!
Rated by parvez on Mar 12 2009, 10:00pm

Estimated to have already saved the force 50 Million Euros, the migration is due to be completed on all 90,000 workstations by 2015.When will such money be saved in India and what about detecting financial scams like the Madoff one with OS software

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