[Ubuntu-SG] Slashdot : French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu

[Amarjit Sonik -aka- Nick]

Bro you could do with some french fries too 

--- On Fri, 13/3/09, Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint <billy at ubuntu.sg> wrote:

> From: Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint <billy at ubuntu.sg>
> Subject: [Ubuntu-SG] Slashdot : French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu
> To: "Ubuntu Singapore Mailing List" <ubuntu-sg at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Friday, 13 March, 2009, 10:20 AM
> >From Slashdot .
> 
> "The French national police force, the Gendarmerie
> Nationale, has spoken
> about their migration away from the Windows platform to
> Linux. Estimated
> to have already saved the force 50 Million Euros, the
> migration is due
> to be completed on all 90,000 workstations by 2015. Of the
> move, Lt.
> Col. Guimard had this comment: '"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."'" 
> 
> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/12/1854224
> 
> I have always wanted to go to France ... Mona Lisa , French
> girls , and
> now Ubuntu using police! :P
> 
> regards
> Billy
> 
> 
> 
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