France: Getting Open-Sourcey, Mais Oui
December 2, 2011
The H announces, “French government tenders for open source support.” This is an interesting shift; there are very high quality commercial software companies in France. We learned from the write up:
“The authorities are looking for a three-year support contract, worth two million euros and covering two-thirds of the country’s twenty-two ministries as well as the Court of Audit. According to Le Monde Informatique, this will include departments ranging from the Office of the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Justice and Freedom to the Ministry of Sports and Ministry of Culture and Communication.”
The list of software to be supported is extensive, including infrastructure, operating systems, desktop applications, and development environments. The ones that peaked our interest are the enterprise applications like Lucene, Alfresco and Nuxeo and databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL.
It will be interesting to see who the French government selects to cover all these open source bases.
Cynthia Murrell, December 2, 2011
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