Jan 30
The French paramilitary police force is switching 70,000 desktops to Linux OS. In what appears to the safe and evolving migration path, it first ditched IE for Firefox, they then used OpenOffice instead of MS Office. Finally, once the users are familiar with the applications, the OS migration is like stepping off of a curb rather than leaping across the Grand Canyon. The reasons for switch are pretty much in line with everyone else.
- Reducing Costs
- Reducing single vendor lock-in
- More control
