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Mozilla scores enterprise email win: 130,000 French government PCs switch to Thunderbird
When the General Directorate of Public Finance was formed, two tax agencies were combined. Their users were split, with 80,000 using Lotus Notes and 50,000 running Microsoft Outlook. In the end, the new agency's decision had a lot to do with a desire not to re-license Lotus Notes and Outlook and to simplify operations by supporting a single client.
Thunderbird had already made inroads with the French Department of Defense as well as the Misitry of Culture. The new migration brings the total number of installs to more than 200,000.
Always nice to see Mozilla adoption in the enterprise!
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Drew Green said 4:15PM on 10-29-2009
So what are they using for the mail server? Please tell me the French government is not using IMAP across 130,000 machines.
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Phil said 4:41PM on 10-29-2009
Exactly... Thunderbird is fine and dandy, but the lack of Exchange or Lotus Notes is crippling in a business.
Open Source doesn't always equal better...
Monica said 5:18PM on 10-29-2009
I personally never thought that Thunderbird was anything special or particularly useful. Or anyway more useful then other clients out there. Maybe its simply because its a stable platform. Either way, its nice to see big groups moving to open software, rather the keep feeding the Ms machine.
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creepinshadow said 6:03PM on 10-29-2009
Monica, you're hot.
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Lars said 12:18AM on 10-30-2009
Good. Now let's see if we can get our own national and local governments onto Ubuntu.
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DrJeckyl said 1:19PM on 10-30-2009
Or maybe they could use Google Apps sever side and avoid wasting the money of french citizens at running their own internal messaging.
But maybe this is too modern and I am just dreaming of an efficient and economically-sound public service in France...
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Phil said 4:39PM on 10-30-2009
Great!
Anyway the real switch to open-source may be when Linux gets widely adopted. Then all the soft built-in MS like IE, Outlook will be in trouble.
@Phil Since it´s open source, I´m pretty sure there will be a fair alternative to Exchange or Lotus Notes, whether from a major Linux distribution or third party developers ;)
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Mike said 8:16PM on 10-30-2009
Why not open source Zimbra on the server side?
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James said 11:08PM on 11-04-2009
I'm curious what they're using as a backend for calendars. I have yet to see a project that handles a shared calendar with automatic attendee availability, emailed events, recurrence, etc., as cleanly as Outlook does. Which kills me, because I can't convince my coworkers to make the switch to Thunderbird if I can't give them a *really good* calendar alternative.....
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acidtest said 12:40AM on 11-08-2009
on the server side,
they use a open source soulution : OBM, from Linagora
http://pro.obm.org/spip.php?article98
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