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Re: [News] French Police Moves to GNU/Linux!!

John Locke wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:58:36 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

French police deal blow to Microsoft

In the end...if Linux is to become the choice for business and
government,  the major determining factor will be money:

"The move away from licenced products is saving the gendarmerie about
seven million euros (10.3 million dollars) a year for all its PCs."

...that's a lot of money by any standards !

And this kind of thing forces Microsoft to drop its prices radically.

Munich didn't want MS even after Ballmer flew there in 2003 and offered a 35% discount.

Ten more Linux conversions like this will cost them billions a year in discounts.

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