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French army sides with Mozilla in Microsoft email war (Reuters)

[Posted December 11, 2009 by ris]

Reuters takes a look at the use of Thunderbird by the French military. "The military found Mozilla's open source design permitted France to build security extensions, while Microsoft's secret, proprietary software allowed no tinkering. "We started with a military project, but quickly generalized it," said Lieutenant-Colonel Frederic Suel of the Ministry of Defense and one of those in charge of the project." (Thanks to Philip Webb)

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Posted Dec 12, 2009 17:02 UTC (Sat) by henning (subscriber, #13406) [Link]

Also interesting is the project site (link), nice to see a open source project managed from a departement of defence (BT is also involved).

French army sides with Mozilla in Microsoft email war (Reuters)

Posted Dec 15, 2009 9:56 UTC (Tue) by gsancosme (guest, #40110) [Link]

Et voilà, like the French people say.

And it is not a decision taken by a tiny army. It shows that when security is involved Microsoft and its bad-fat-useless security modules/apps is left by side.
The next step is to throw away all Windows versions. The time will come, it's a matter of patience

French army sides with Mozilla in Microsoft email war (Reuters)

Posted Dec 24, 2009 19:03 UTC (Thu) by woooee (guest, #54179) [Link]

Note the last paragraph

"The professional market is showing more resistance to open source software," said Bernard-Louis Roques, chief executive of Truffle Capital IT, an investment fund specializing in software."

Who is Roques and why would anyone care what he says? Apparently he is important only because he disagrees. The "professional market" includes banks, stock markets, etc. which certainly do not show resistance.