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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] French government to test open source on the desktop
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-02-24 10:42:41
Message-ID: 200402241142.41187.bastian () kde ! org
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On Mon February 23 2004 23:48, Charles de Miramon wrote:
> ADAE have just released a grand plan called ADELE but it is all about web
> portals. French citizen should be able in the future to interact more with
> their administration through the web (get information, fill forms, pay
> taxes) but there is nothing in their published plan concerning the desktop
> used by civil servants.

It seems they wanted to let somewhere between 5 and 15% of their workforce use 
Linux on the desktop by 2007. Probably a good way to bargain down their 
Microsoft licensing cost and to make sure they don't get too much tied to the 
MS platform.

Cheers,
Waldo
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bastian@kde.org -=|[ SUSE, The Linux Desktop Experts ]|=- bastian@suse.com
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