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http://www.osor.eu/news/fr-130-000-pcs-at-tax-authority-to-get-open-source-email-client
"All 130,000 desktop PCs at the Directorate General of Public Finance (DGPF) in Paris are to be switched to using the open source Mozilla Thunderbird email client, its Lightning calendar and the open source groupware application OBM, the French IT news site 01.net reports, citing a source familiar with the project.
The French tax authority DGPF is the result of a merger begun in 2007 of the Directorate General of Taxes (DGI) and the Directorate General of Public Accountancy (DGCP). Each uses their own email system, IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook and the integration of the two departments prompted a move to new email and groupware software, writes 01.net.
The tax authority selected Thunderbird for reasons of cost and management of licenses. "Otherwise DGFiP would have to renew the existing licenses, which it clearly did not want", 01.Net cites its source.
The tax authority could not immediately comment on the report.
Linagora, a French provider of open source IT services, confirmed that the tax authority will start to use its open source groupware application OBM. The company says the application is being used by over 600,000 employees of the French air forces, the university hospital in the city of Brest, France's National Institute of Health and Medical Research and both the ministries of Culture and the Interior."
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"All 130,000 desktop PCs at the Directorate General of Public Finance (DGPF) in Paris are to be switched to using the open source Mozilla Thunderbird email client, its Lightning calendar and the open source groupware application OBM, the French IT news site 01.net reports, citing a source familiar with the project.
The French tax authority DGPF is the result of a merger begun in 2007 of the Directorate General of Taxes (DGI) and the Directorate General of Public Accountancy (DGCP). Each uses their own email system, IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook and the integration of the two departments prompted a move to new email and groupware software, writes 01.net.
The tax authority selected Thunderbird for reasons of cost and management of licenses. "Otherwise DGFiP would have to renew the existing licenses, which it clearly did not want", 01.Net cites its source.
The tax authority could not immediately comment on the report.
Linagora, a French provider of open source IT services, confirmed that the tax authority will start to use its open source groupware application OBM. The company says the application is being used by over 600,000 employees of the French air forces, the university hospital in the city of Brest, France's National Institute of Health and Medical Research and both the ministries of Culture and the Interior."
Penguins are not ready for the masses, ha make me laugh.
