French national police switch from XP to Ubuntu and save millions

The French national police started replacing Windows XP with Ubuntu on all systems in 2004 and have already saved an estimated 50 million euros.

Check out the following link for the complete story.

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu.ars

I have a renewed respect for the French :-)

Comments

[Rich Rodriguez]

So France's national police gave up on Windows and went with Ubuntu for all their computer systems. Not a surprise to me since the French are good at surrendering. ;)

Seriously, that is one big feather in the cap for open-source software, for a national governmental agency to switch to one and away from the Microsoft juggernaut.

I use OpenOffice.org, Audacity, Inkscape and GIMPshop on my PC and am very happy with how they work so well.