Linux wins another European contract
Wednesday, 14 July 2004 14:10 EST
The French Ministry of Equipment is to migrate 1,500 aging Windows NT servers to a specially developed version of MandrakeSoft's Linux Corporate Server, amid growing evidence that large European organisations are treating open-source software as a serious alternative to proprietary offerings. MandrakeSoft said that two Linux distributions based on Corporate Server, developed to suit the ministry's requirements, had been selected for the migration. The ministry is also buying services such as technical monitoring, training and technical support from MandrakeSoft.
The ministry's IT systems include 60,000 workstations and 2,000 Windows NT servers nearing the end of their useful lives, spread across 160 locations, including 102 local French administrations, according to MandrakeSoft. The organisation employs about 100,000 agents throughout France.
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