[ANSOL-geral] French Officials Eye Open-Source Apps - e nós a vê-los passar...

[Ricardo Jorge]

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French Officials Eye Open-Source Apps
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114759,pg,1,00.asp

Government plans to install a non-Microsoft OS on desktops by 2007.

Peter Sayer, IDG News Service
Monday, February 16, 2004

The French government will install open source software on the desktop as part 
of Project ADELE, a plan to computerize much of the country's administration 
by 2007, a government official says.

The administration will migrate a significant number of its desktops to open 
source operating systems and application software, Jacques Sauret, director 
of the French Agency for the Development of the Electronic Administration, 
said at a recent meeting of the French IT and Telecoms Press Club.

Whether that significant number will be 5 percent, 10 percent, or 15 percent 
is still being debated, he said.

Today, almost all the government's desktop PCs run some version of Microsoft 
Windows, with just 1 percent or 2 percent running an operating system from 
another West Coast company, Sauret said. He declined to name the company.

Open-Source Advantages

Introducing open source software will give the government experience in 
managing competing suppliers, and allow it to better evaluate the 
interoperability and comparative lifecycle costs of the different systems, he 
said.

The government wants to spend a higher proportion of its IT budget on 
integration and innovation.

That means spending less on software licenses, so at the same time as 
introducing open source software to the desktop, the government hopes to 
reduce the cost of its proprietary systems by beating Microsoft down on 
price, he said. Currently, each department negotiates its own price with the 
company.

"Today, we're a captive market. We're going to engage in discussions with 
Microsoft to obtain a single tariff for the whole administration, to get 
economies of scale," Sauret said.


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