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French Open Source Deployments

Attending the OpenOffice.org conference in Berlin today, where I just delivered the opening address. I am now listening to representatives of the French government talking about the widespread use of OpenOffice.org in various government departments. I hadn't realised how widespread OpenOffice.org was in the French government, but they have tens of thousands of users and are finding it a migration no harder than moving to the current MS Office in user terms and much easier in administration terms (in particular there are no licenses to manage and police). The Customs service, the Gendarmerie, the Ministry of Justice and several more have widespread deployments.

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Thank for the information.

I'm french but living since very long time in Germany, still I'm very interested what's happening in France.

If you have more information about this feel free to contact me.

Jean-Marc

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Jean-Marc Autexier : 2:23 PM

I recommend Pat's take on this - he has links to more information.

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cyntia_bimbo : 9:26 PM

what i have to say ,is for all communiti of open source , i never had a change to study,actualy im pretty dumb,do you whant to know why ?? i believe in god, but its not that that brings me here, its ....my whill to say thanks to all people that believes that things should be free , in real life and in virtual life, thats why i believe in open source it gave me a change to learn that when you have strong abylitie to chage one thing that you whant you will get it no matter what ...but in the end i notice that before i had a change to stablish a live , but i gave it so hard that i stuck in one website... the site of my life, but know i can actually design it but i cant stablish a life that allows me to put it online that site is g4ever.nationvoice.com, g4ever comes from gamer 4 ever , it means playing game of live 4 ever , nationvoice is the voice that whanted me to go there and that nation voice is USA , actually all my heros are from there, since seinfeld, or macgayver or pretender even rambo and much more your movies kept me alive all this years and they are my font of inspiration 4ever , i will keep trying i hope that you make the same because i will dye trying to get there ...by foot some day that i could not handle this side anymore, and yes when the day comes , the day i arrived to america you will see my eyes and you will see the truth, until than thanks 4 your courage to give everyone a change to be what god whants them to be ... for me ... a designer , and i dont rip, i used already make ones to study them because i was a little bit lazzy to read all tuturials on internet , and everybody knows the boring it is, know i know and i never used the ones that i study for final product , i just was trying to find my style... and i did ... thanks and keep fighting 4 all ikuaL

The true Fernando dos Santos Quaresma , owner of HTTP://g4ever.nationvoice.com
made in 2005 in aveiro city whit a canadian server provider.
P.S. if i ever "catch" the true in the air remember that only God works whit true. keep them in your heart.

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