French Ministry Ditches Microsoft for MandrakeLinux

[Moogie]

<table width="90%" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" bordercolor="#63635A" bgcolor="#E7E7E2" align="center"><tr><td style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;">"The French government has put its money where its mouth is and announced a deal to replace 1,500 copies of Microsoft NT server with home-grown open source Linux software from Mandrake. Several government departments, such as the Ministry of Culture, already use MandrakeLinux. But it recently said it was considering expanding its use of open source software. The Civil Service Minister Renaud Dutreil was quoted as saying 'the competition is open,' between Microsoft and Linux."<br></td></tr></table><br><br>The full article can be found <a href="http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=60312"><u>HERE.</u></a><br><br><b>Article submitted by IronBits</b>

[rshepard]

It would be interesting to know if the competition is open between Mandrake and other distros -- isn't Mandrake based in France? :D

[QIbHom]

Mandrake is French. The French government likes to support French businesses (can't blame them there).

I wouldn't personally use Mandrake for a server, but it has to be more secure and managable than NT. The most nightmarish year of my life was spent administering two evil NT servers.