Following Munich, Germany's decision to switch to Linux desktops, the French
capital of Paris is studying a similar move.
Systems integrator Unilog is set to carry out a feasibility study on the
installation of open-source software systems for the city of Paris, the company
has said. On the strength of an earlier Unilog study, Munich agreed to migrate
thousands of desktops from Windows to the open-source operating system Linux.
The three-month study will review the 17,000 Windows-based PCs used by the
French capital's administration, including 400 servers and 600 applications, and
it was awarded to Unilog as a direct result of the Munich study, the company
said. In May of last year, Munich decided to equip 14,000 workstations with SuSE
Linux-based systems, a move seen as a significant win for the open-source camp.
Linux is highly popular on servers, but does not yet challenge Microsoft's
dominance of the desktop.
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