Dutch police goes open source

[Abarbarian]

"The choice of the police for 500 RHEL5 subscriptions and 2 RHN Satellite Servers follows a change in policy. The Dutch Police will select only open source solutions. “One trend we see in various government organizations is to reduce costs,” said Sandor Klein, general manager at Red Hat. This strategic policy change follows the political focus on open standards and open source software and the efforts of the NOiV."

Maybe when our MP's have fiished worrying about their expenses they will take a look at Open Source options to MS products