French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu
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France’s Gendarmerie Nationale, the country’s national police force, says it has saved millions of dollars by migrating its desktop software infrastructure away from Microsoft Windows and replacing it with the Ubuntu Linux distribution.
The Gendarmerie began its transition to open source software in 2005 when it replaced Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org across the entire [...]
Firm finds gain after open-source shift pain
It’s nice to read what open-source vendors think of open source: it’s easy, cheap, and quite possibly the cure for cancer. (That last one is my personal hope.)
However, it’s much more useful to get real customer feedback on open source. That’s what makes Mercian Labels’ shift to open source–with all the benefits and negatives that [...]
Open Source Saves the Day
Parts-supplier Ogihara America, savaged by the automotive downturn, presses on with a key PLM initiative thanks to flexible pricing from its software vendor.
The most important information technology initiative at automotive industry supplier Ogihara America Corporation is one the company couldn’t afford at all right now if not for the economic edge it gets from using [...]
Energized by Open Source
Six-year-old BlueStar Energy Services Inc. doesn’t have the kind of systems-baggage that saddles many older organizations. Still, the Chicago-based company found itself hindered by the rigidity of its core systems, which constrained its efforts to expand its customer base and offer new services.
Those barriers to growth led the company to embark on a bold effort [...]