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Gendarmes dump IE
The gendarmerie's 70,000 desktops were being converted to Firefox and its email client Thunderbird because of the navigator's "reliability, security and inter-operability with other state services," said General Christian Brachet, IT director of the police force.
The move should be complete by the end of the year, he said, as enthusiasts of open sourcing wrapped up an annual meeting in Paris at the Solution Linux 2006 exhibition.
Firefox had been chosen because it was based on the W3C
standard, an international norm for the internet, and because it works
equally well under Microsoft, Mac or Linux.
By the end of 2005, all the gendarmerie's computers had made the switch
to OpenOffice 1.4 and by March should have moved to version 2.0.
The change should save the police more than two million euros
($3.2 million) a year, according to Colonel Nicolas Geraud, deputy
director of the gendarmerie's IT department.
