Linux vs Windows - Conquering a Windows Based World

To avoid vendor lock-in and avoid forced upgrade cycles of proprietary solutions the French Ministry has selected open source solutions to equip all of its local education authorities.  This would account for around 2,500 servers at 30 locations.

“In 2004, over 95 percent of the servers ran on Linux. Today we are close to 100 percent, since we withdrew the last AIX servers at the end of 2006,” said Affre.

Seems like a great success story to me, hope to hear about more of them!