The success story of Open Source in France: the total cost of ownership of the national gendarmerie computer park fell by 40%
In France, high-level results were presented personally by Interior Minister Stephen Dumont (Stéphane Dumond) told about the experiment on switching to free software on computers gendarmerie (Gendarmerie nationale), which performs the functions of internal troops and military police in the state.
Back in 2004, the ministry began to discuss the question of what to do in order to "... provide all users with access to the internal computer network, significantly expanding the use of standard tools to increase office productivity." As a result, a volitional decision was made and Open Office was installed on 90,000 computers, the ODF format was adopted for internal correspondence, and 20,000 licenses for the old office suite were not renewed.
In 2006, there was a transition to the Mozilla Firefox browser, and Thunderbird was expectedly chosen as the email client. In the next two years, even more changes took place - Gimp was adopted as a picture editor, and VLC was used to view video files. At the same time, in the test mode, Ubuntu was installed on the first 5,000 computers and planning for such a transition at the departmental level began.
The preparation was probably solid. In 2011, Ubuntu was installed on 20,000 desktops, a year later another 10,000 were added to this number, and in 2013, 2,000 more. In spring, they did not forget to upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04. As a result, Dumont promisingly stated that this year the last obstacles to the transition were overcome and soon the rest of the computer park of the gendarmerie will work on a free and free operating system.
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As a result, the large-scale project of the French military police can be described as follows: in about 10 years, a huge array of computers - about 37,000 - was transferred to free software. At the same time, the expected economic effect was the reason for this step - the total cost of ownership of the organization’s computer park decreased by as much as 40%, and although the absolute figure was not mentioned, the experiment in France can easily be considered successful.
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Back in 2004, the ministry began to discuss the question of what to do in order to "... provide all users with access to the internal computer network, significantly expanding the use of standard tools to increase office productivity." As a result, a volitional decision was made and Open Office was installed on 90,000 computers, the ODF format was adopted for internal correspondence, and 20,000 licenses for the old office suite were not renewed.
In 2006, there was a transition to the Mozilla Firefox browser, and Thunderbird was expectedly chosen as the email client. In the next two years, even more changes took place - Gimp was adopted as a picture editor, and VLC was used to view video files. At the same time, in the test mode, Ubuntu was installed on the first 5,000 computers and planning for such a transition at the departmental level began.
The preparation was probably solid. In 2011, Ubuntu was installed on 20,000 desktops, a year later another 10,000 were added to this number, and in 2013, 2,000 more. In spring, they did not forget to upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04. As a result, Dumont promisingly stated that this year the last obstacles to the transition were overcome and soon the rest of the computer park of the gendarmerie will work on a free and free operating system.
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As a result, the large-scale project of the French military police can be described as follows: in about 10 years, a huge array of computers - about 37,000 - was transferred to free software. At the same time, the expected economic effect was the reason for this step - the total cost of ownership of the organization’s computer park decreased by as much as 40%, and although the absolute figure was not mentioned, the experiment in France can easily be considered successful.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/196020/
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