Thanks for the link to that article on osor.eu, on that page was a link to the case study: http://www.osor.eu/case_studies/towards-the-freedom-of-the-operating-

Thanks for the link to that article on osor.eu, on that page was a link to the case study: http://www.osor.eu/case_studies/towards-the-freedom-of-the-operating-system-the-french-gendarmerie-goes-for-ubuntu http://www.osor.eu/case_studies/towards-the-freedom-of-the-o... "the project is one of several similar migrations of French public bodies. To mention just a some examples: the French National Assembly in 2007 decided to run Ubuntu on their 1145 workstations; the Ministry of Agriculture and Fishery switched their servers to the Mandriva GNU/Linux distribution in 2005; the Paris council will use several open souce applications on their laptops, as decided in June, 2008. These developments thus clearly show how open source software is used increasingly in the French public sector." Apparently they aren't the first in France to move to OSS so the interoperability is easier to handle.