French Interior Ministry: open source 5 to 10 times cheaper

Vía https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/71817

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France's Ministry of the Interior says its use of Thunderbird, a free software email client, running on its 200 000 PCs since 2008, is five times cheaper than the use of the ubiquitous proprietary alternative. The ministry recently started using the combination of GLPI and OCS, free software tools for managing computer assets, software licences and configuration files. "This is 10 times less expensive than the previous proprietary tool."

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