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France to Invest a LOT in Open Source

Despite some recent apathy and threats to jail for Open Source DRM:

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| A consortium lead by Capgemini has won what seems to be the largest
| open source contract ever: 15 to 40 millions Euros for the next 3
| years (17 to 47 MUSD). Capgemini commits to provide support for the
| 150 open source products used within the information system of the
| French Ministry of Finances.
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http://www.opensource-it.com/blogs/?p=11

Also see:

http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020472,39236214-2,00.htm

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| The French tax agency claims that upgrading its 80,000 desktops
| to Office XP would cost 29.5m Euros, but switching to OpenOffice.org
| only 200,000 Euros
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