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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