[Ubuntu-be] Ubuntu and open source software in the French Gendarmerie Nationale

[Jan Claeys]

Op woensdag 11-03-2009 om 23:57 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Michel:
> This is a success story we dream about. Not only for Linux in general 
> but specialy for Ubuntu. The French gendarmerie prefers Ubunutu over 
> (French) Mandrake.

I won't be surprised if some French company is involved though, and
their servers are (were already) Debian.

OTOH, from reading the presentation it seems like the ICT department of
the French "gendarmerie" is actually involved in open source development
themselves.  They have 1900(!) people in that department (computers &
communication, which includes their radio network); nice to see them
give back to the community some of the time (= money) they won by moving
to linux...


One quote I'd like to put here:
"Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many
advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users. Moving
from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest
differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority."

  :-)

-- 
Jan Claeys