[ossig] French Parliment Switches to Ubuntu

[Ditesh Kumar]

>From the FOSS-PDI list, posted by Sunil Abraham.

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http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/814

The French Parliament switches to Ubuntu

The French Parliament looks to be the next big Ubuntu switcher  
according to reports. Recently the Parliament produced an official  
government report that recommended the use of free software over  
proprietary software. The switch to free software is expected to  
provide a substantial savings to the tax-payers according to the  
government study.

Following this recommendation two companies, Linagora and Unilog, have  
been selected to provide the members of the Parliament as well as  
their assistants new computers containing free software. This will  
amount to 1,154 new computers running Ubuntu prior to the start of the  
next session which occurs in June 2007.

More detailed information can be read in French at ZDNet.fr and  
latribune.fr. There is also an article available in English from  
November 2006 pertaining to this same exact report at ZDNet.com.

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