Category: Tweets  ·  Originally posted March 12, 2009  ·  Last updated June 4, 2010

Use Ubuntu, save $64 million USD

As reported by Ars Technica, the French police force (or Gendarmarie) is currently in the process of switching 15,000 desktops from XP to Ubuntu.  Since 2004, the force has saved over $60 million USD (€50 million) by migrating to open source software, including OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, and Ubuntu.  By 2015 the department plans to have all 90,000 of its computers on Ubuntu, which – by my calculations – is some $10 million that Microsoft isn’t making in Vista upgrade fees.  Sweeeeet.

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