FLOSS is a Bargain for French Finance Ministry at Robert Pogson

Do the maths. All these applications on server and desktop for four years for just ~150 per user. Further, the money goes to employ local small businesses boosting the French economy which needs boosting…

“The contract is meant to support use of open source by the General Directorate of Public Finance, which employs over 116,000 civil servants. The consortium will offer the DG support for over two hundred open source applications. According to the French IT news site Journal du Net, the list of applications include Drupal, Open LDAP, Lemonldap, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, OBM, Tomcat, Postgresql, Apache, Nagios, Cacti, LibreOffice, PHP, Firefox and Thunderbird.”

via French finance ministry awards 15 million euro open source contract.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.