Paris govt. offices slowly switching to open-source software
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Local government offices in the French capital will be moving to open source software, but they&#39;ll be doing it slowly. An independent study showed that a switch to open source would cause &quot;significant
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The French Ministry of Defense has signed up Paris-based Linux vendor Madrakesoft SA and a consortium of companies to develop a highly secure Linux operating system for business, defense and government uses.
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The productivity package is added to the program that allows governments to see Microsoft source code.
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Even as such open source software developers as Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) and OpenOffice.org wax enthusiastic concerning enterprise deployments of their respective Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Office alternatives, industry analysts are urging caution.
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With its open-source model, the company has the potential to shake up the industry, one analyst says.
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Thanks to some new developments in document standards, Office 2007 users will be able to share files with open-source office apps and online productivity suites from the likes of Zoho and Google. In Monkey Bites.
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The French parliament has said au revoir to Microsoft. Starting in June of next year, French deputies will use desktops and servers running Linux, Mozilla's Firefox Web browser, and OpenOffice.org, a free open-source alternative to Microsoft's Office software.
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It won&#39;t be &quot;all or nothing&quot; and it won&#39;t be &quot;everything, right away.&quot; That&#39;s the gist of the message coming out of Paris following the presentation of a report on a possible switch from Windows to open source.
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Government organizations will still be able to use proprietary software and formats but will have to justify it under the new policy.
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A day after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent out a missive pushing Redmond&#39;s message that &quot;free software isn&#39;t free,&quot; the UK&#39;s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) said open source software is a viable desktop alternative for most government users.
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While open-source software is new to the Middle Kingdom, Beijing is looking to change that. Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik explains why.
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ETAI Group, a company in France that publishes auto parts catalogs and service manuals, is using open-source data-integration tools to try to streamline the process of updating the information in its nine databases.
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(InfoWorld) - European car manufacturing giant PSA Peugeot CitroÃ«n has agreed to one of the Continent's largest-ever deployments of open-source Linux software on desktop computers. As part of a multiyear contract with Novell, the French company will install Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop on up to 20,000 computers in addition to 2,500 servers, the U.S. software vendor said Tuesday. The announcement comes on the same day thatÂ Microsoft's new Vista operating system and Office 2007 software suite become commercially available for consumers. Charles King, principle analyst with Pund-IT, a technology research firm, referred to the size of the Novell contract with Peugeot CitroÃ«n as "significant" and the timing of the announcement as "very interesting." "The migration to Vista will require a significant hardware upgrade," King said. "The costs associated with this upgrade will open the door for companies to consider alternatives." Officials from Peugeot CitroÃ«n were unavailable for comment, but Novell said in a statement, quoting an IT representative from the French company, that support for Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop and the user-friendly design of the software were key factors in the selection process. The opportunity to lower IT costs through open-source software almost certainly had to be another factor, King said. Novell provided no financial details of the contract. With Vista and Office being powerful IT tools, King believes that many companies will start asking themselves what sort of functionality their employees need on their desktop computers and, equally important, what they are willing to pay for this functionality. With Vista and Office 2007, King warned, some companies could be purchasing way more functionality then they need. "Let me put it this way: Do you need a Ferrari to go to the neighborhood shopping store when a mini-van will do?" he said.
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Responding to requests, Microsoft will sponsor open-source project to build translators between older office formats and Open XML.
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Still in stealth mode, a company looks to use open source to make it easier to build social applications on the Web.
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Local government launches the first phase of its open-source migration after a year's delay.
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Microsoft offered more than 60 governments the key to its Office desktop suite as the world's leading software maker faces growing competition from open-source rivals such as Linux.