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French police deal blow to Microsoft
by Christina Mackenzie Wed Jan 30, 4:28 AM ET
PARIS (AFP) - The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it
is ditching Microsoft for the free Linux operating system, becoming
one of the biggest administrations in the world to make the break.
The gendarmerie's 70,000 desktops currently use Microsoft's
Windows XPoperating system. But these will progressively change
over to the
Linux system distributed by Ubuntu, explained Colonel Nicolas Geraud,
deputy director of the gendarmerie's IT department.
"We will introduce Linux every time we have to replace a desktop
computer," he said, "so this year we expect to change 5,000-8,000 to
Ubuntu and then 12,000-15,000 over the next four years so that every
desktop uses the Linux operating system by 2013-2014."
More:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080130/tc_afp/franceinternetpolice
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by Christina Mackenzie Wed Jan 30, 4:28 AM ET
PARIS (AFP) - The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it
is ditching Microsoft for the free Linux operating system, becoming
one of the biggest administrations in the world to make the break.
The gendarmerie's 70,000 desktops currently use Microsoft's
Windows XPoperating system. But these will progressively change
over to the
Linux system distributed by Ubuntu, explained Colonel Nicolas Geraud,
deputy director of the gendarmerie's IT department.
"We will introduce Linux every time we have to replace a desktop
computer," he said, "so this year we expect to change 5,000-8,000 to
Ubuntu and then 12,000-15,000 over the next four years so that every
desktop uses the Linux operating system by 2013-2014."
More:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080130/tc_afp/franceinternetpolice
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