Microsoft has lost a little more ground in France. This time it’s to the MP’s as they adopt Linux as their operating system of choice.
The project, backed by MPs Richard Cazenav and Bernard Carayon of the UMP party, will see 1,154 French parliamentary workstations running on an open source OS, with OpenOffice.org, Firefox and an open source email client.
Being a frequent user of Open Office I can add that it has matured nicely. I’m sure there are some imcompatibilites that I have yet to be plagued with but, so far all has been well.
This will be the first case of a French public institution switching its PCs onto a Linux operating system. Previous open source initiatives concerned servers, as was the case with the Minstry of Agriculture, or OpenOffice and Firefox, which were brought into use by France’s gendarmerie.
[tags]Microsoft, Open Office, France, Linux[/tags]
