France’s Gendarmerie Nationale, the country’s national police force, says it has saved millions of dollars by migrating its desktop software infrastructure away from Microsoft Windows and replacing it with the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

The Gendarmerie began its transition to open source software in 2005 when it replaced Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org across the entire organization. It

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Linux is dead - long live Open Source

According to an IDC report referenced in Wikipedia Linux only accounts for around 2% of installed desk top PC operating systems. The same report gave Linux server share at 12.7% and Windows server at 38.8%, the remaining 48.5% being spread primarily over various Unix variants. The report also identified that Windows server market share was growing more

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When everyone was happy and knew how to use Firefox, they moved them over from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice. When all the staff were happy

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