[odf-discuss] French parliament dumping Windows for Linux

[Jean Hollis Weber]

http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-6138372.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news

"France's gendarmes and Ministry of Culture and Communication 
have done it, and now members of the country's parliament are 
about to switch to open source.

Starting in June 2007, PCs in French deputes' offices will be 
equipped with a Linux operating system and open-source 
productivity software.

The project, backed by parliament members Richard Cazenave and 
Bernard Carayon of the Union for a Popular Movement party, will 
see 1,154 French parliamentary workstations running on Linux, 
with OpenOffice.org productivity software, the Firefox Web 
browser and an open-source e-mail client."