Thought I’d share a success story.
France’s National Gendarmerie (military police) rolled out GendBuntu, their own custom Linux OS
- Around 35,000 desktops/laptops deployed by December 2011, and today 97% of 103,000+ PCs run GendBuntu
- They started by replacing Office, IE & Outlook in 2005, then moved to Ubuntu in 2008, achieving a 40% reduction in total cost of ownership
- The switch slashed annual license and maintenance costs by millions of euros (~€2 M per year and ~€50 M total) .
The switch away from big Tech to Open Source alternatives might not be easy, but it’s been successfully done before.
Is anyone else unable to click the link?
There aren’t really news articles about it that I could find, only info in Wiki.
So I thought I’d share so more people are aware of it
No it’s fine the post title just sounded like a news article haha