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Open Office popularity in France In French Open Source Deployments Simon explains how Open Office begins to be widely deployed in french administrations. Yes this is a strong trend in France these days. I'll quote a few resources about that to give you a better idea of the scale we're talking about. Most sources are in french, sorry, people here tend to publish in their native language, even if this reduces their potential audience: L'Etat se tourne vers le logiciel libre an article from last june explains that the government must update the software for 900 000 computers in the next 3 years. Renaud Dutreil, minister of Public Service and State Reform (in charge of managing the administration) explained that "for office software only (word processors, spreadsheet, presentation) it represented more than 300 millions euros."
But government is not alone: the health sector is another area where Open Office seems to get a lot of traction in France.
Medecine Libre is a site dedicated to using oss software in the french health sector.
OpenOffice - Chronicle of an Ambitious Successful Migration describes Suite bureautique, les enjeux d'une alternative (Office suite - the stakes of an alternative), an in depth analysis, both technical and financial (detailed TCO), assessing migrating to Office XP vs Open Office in a medium size french hospital. Conclusion (p 116) is that the TCO of Open Office is half the one from Office XP. This report dates back to 2003: I guess the people in charge of upgrading the administration's 900 000 computers have read it:-)
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