[NTLUG:Discuss] [Fwd: Mdklinux NWL Flash: French Government Chooses Mandrakesoft to Replace 1500 Windows NT servers]

[terry]

Greg Edwards wrote:
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> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Flash: French Government Chooses Mandrakesoft to Replace 1500 Windows NT 
> servers
> 
> Ground Breaking News: The French Ministry of Equipment has chosen
> Mandrakelinux Corporate Server to replace 1,500 Microsoft Windows NT
> servers in a national scale deployment. Recently, Civil Service
> Minister Renaud Dutreil was quoted in Reuters as saying "the
> competition is open" between open-source and Microsoft for the nearly
> one million government computers. Mandrakesoft is proud to supply the
> operating system for the Ministry of Equipment deployment, and to
> supply open-source alternatives to governments around the world.
> 
> 

That's extremely good news.
Very a smart move on the part of the French Government, maybe some of 
the others will follow suit.
I for one am very proud of Mandrake. I think they are a very good 
distribution.  I've not seen any of the commercial products but have 
explored the last few versions of their desktop offerings and the 
install process always just worked flawlessly, was very user friendly, 
just an all around excellent representative of Linux OS and apps. If any 
of you haven't tried Mandrake lately, I highly recommend it.

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