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Open source software in the French

administrations and private sector:

Lessons learnedfrom recent experiments

Jean BERBINAU, General Council on IT

jean.berbinau@industrie.gouv.fr

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The Enlightenment controversy

Ideas spring from

the individual

mind

literary privilege

Denis DIDEROT

Ideas originate in nature

free access & copying

Marquis de CONDORCET

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Lessons learned from today’s experiments (I)

Don't select open software only for

economic reasons

There are strategic ones: CyberInSecurity

To move from « Fat » to « Thin »

results in savings

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Lessons learned from today’s experiments (II)

Don't select open software only for economic reasons

Don't worry if you are addressing the IS

infrastructure layers or the Web servers.

Ministry of Finance : 25% of the servers are Open Source

MIOGA : www.mioga4u.org

www.alixen.fr

Lutece : www.lutece.paris.fr (English)

fr.lutece.paris.fr (French)

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Lessons learned from today’s experiments (III)

Don't select open software only for economic

reasons

Don't worry if you are addressing the IS

infrastructure layers or the Web servers

Be careful if you are thinking about

changing the working environment

of your end users

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OSS working environment for the end users

OpenCIGREF project: The OSS cloned desktop works

Minor inconveniences (end user & administrator)

TCO:4000 €/year

Ministry of Interior: 15,000 desktop PCs today, 30,000 within 2 years

3 M€ saved on licenses

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Pooling & Reusing Open Source Software

Pay all due attention

to Intellectual Property Respect the OSS rules of license

Be aware of existing and future software patents

Creating a pooling facility will require legal

certainty as well as a long-term commitment and substantial budgetary resources

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