The French government is a procurement procedure launched for the offer of support for open-source software that it uses. Certainly two-thirds of the French ministries would be open source software.
The various tenders, which represent a value of 2 million euro, ask for ict support for a period of three years, reports The H Open. The tenders, which are issued by the Direction des Systèmes d’information et de Communication, broken down by ministry. The registration runs until January 9, while the support agreement on 30 march 2012 in it should go.
From the list of public procurement shows that certainly two-thirds of the French ministries open-source software deployment. In addition to various open-source operating systems, such as CentOS and FreeBSD, asks the French government to support desktop applications like Firefox, LibreOffice and VNC. Also missing are also server applications, including Apache, PostgreSQL and MySQL. In addition, there is support sought for a number of development environments and programming languages.
The French government seems to continue with the implement of open source software than the uk; last week it was still in a research concluded that Dutch authorities in tendering procedures, in 36 percent of the cases, open source no chance, despite the obligation to use such software definitely seriously consider.