The French still have their panties in twist over Microsoft.
French parliament embraces LinuxFRANCE'S PARLIAMENT is sticking an unspecified finger up at Bill Gates and his Volish crew by switching over from Windows to the Open Sauce Wonder that is Linux.
Come June 2007, French parliamentary offices will be stocked with a Linux OS and open sauce productivity software, reports CNET.
It's not quite official yet, according to a French parliamentary spokesbloke - no decision about the choice of Linux distribution and e-mail client has been made just yet. However, the parliament's servers are Linux-based with Apache Web servers and the Mambo content management system. Not only that, but the French are running Firefox, too.
This is the first ever case of a public French institution switching over to Linux, apparently.
This might be the first, but I doubt the last.
I think Vista is a dual edged sword for Microsoft in many ways. (more about this later) When major institutions have to change the whole way they do business, they tend to look at all their options. Linux is far more attaractive than it was a few years ago. I actually think Vista is going to help Linux considerably.
Look a post about France on Wizbang that didn't have the word surrender in it. Well, now it does now. ;-)
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At first I thought it was a... (Below threshold)1. Posted by PlainBill | November 28, 2006 11:45 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
At first I thought it was a typo, but somehow it figures that the French would be interested in open sauce software. ;)
1. Posted by PlainBill | November 28, 2006 11:45 PM |
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Posted on November 28, 2006 23:45
2. Posted by jpm100 | December 3, 2006 11:19 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Perhaps the title should read, "France Surrenders to Linux".
2. Posted by jpm100 | December 3, 2006 11:19 AM |
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Posted on December 3, 2006 11:19