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French Police: Firefox Oui, IE Non
By David A. Utter
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2006-02-06
The French Police Force has chosen to replace installations of Internet Explorer on its network with the open source Firefox browser.
Firefox and its mail client partner software Thunderbird picked up 70,000 desktops' worth of support when the French police force decided to change browsers.
Forbes reported how the switch follows the department's switch last year from the Microsoft Office productivity suite to the freely available offering, OpenOffice.
The gendarmerie's IT director, Christian Brachet, told attendees at Solution Linux 2006 in Paris of the department's plans to further embrace technology that offers "reliability, security and inter-operability with other state services."
While the move does cut down on the security issues associated with IE, the OpenOffice switch was much more significant. That changeover allows the police force to save over 2 million Euros ($2.4 million USD) it would normally pay to Microsoft for annual Office licenses.
Firefox recently updated its 1.5 version of the browser to fix a few nagging issues, like memory leaks that had plagued some users.
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David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.
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