French Kempei Tribe Corps which made OS and software open source to reduce total holding cost by 40%

ByAndrew Back

The total cost of installing, maintaining and managing computer systemsTCO(Total Cost of Ownership). In the present age where the introduction cost of the IT system itself is getting lower compared to several years ago, we should consider introducing and operating the computer system with TCO including the running cost. Meanwhile,French national military police force(Commonly known as Gendarumuri)Open SourceAn example was reported that the use of OS and software reduced the IT-related TCO by 40%.

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The use of an open source system can save the license fee generated by using software with owner license and also reduce the overall cost of IT management. "It does not have to pay a license fee is only part of the iceberg of the TCO reduction effect obtained by operating an open source system," said Major Stephane Dumond who works at the French Interior Ministry.

Gendarumuri currently has 37,000UbuntuWe are using a computer with an open source operating system (OS), and in the summer of next year we will increase the number of Ubuntu-equipped terminals to 72,000, and the computers in the organization will be replaced with those of the completely open source OS. It is a rare case in the world that a computer with such a large scale open source system is used in administration.

ByDave Monk

Using open source software eliminates the need to pay commercial software usage fee, so it will be possible to reduce TCO by that much. Using Ubuntu as an OS seemed to be a risk to Gendarumuri, but at the same time, by changing the software to be used to an open source one with lower utilization cost, while filling in risks, it is time and human He said that he sought to reorganize the organization's IT structure by saving resources and even cost.

In 2004 the Gendarmuri IT section faces a big problem. The problem is "We need to provide office tools for a wide range of applications with minimum cost to all users who use computers in the organization." Gendaru Muri is one of the open source software as a solution to thisOpenOfficeIt was decided to use this, which was installed on 90,000 PCs, and about 20,000 commercial software licenses became unnecessary.

ByJoshua alaister

Given the success of the introduction of OpenOffice, Gendarumu migrated the text editor used at the time of internal report creation to open source one. In addition, Mozilla's Firefox was used as a web browser in 2006 and Mozilla's Thunderbird was used when e-mailing on a computer, and in 2007 and 2008, image processing softwareGimpOr for multimedia applicationsVLCAnd other open source software as software to use within the organization.

ByJuan Jiménez Martínez

And in 2008, we started preparing for Ubuntu's large-scale deployment, starting with introducing Ubuntu to 5000 desktop PCs first. Ubuntu was introduced to 20,000 in 2011, 10,000 in desktop PC in 2012, 2000 by the end of September 2013 already has been replaced with 2000 Ubuntu OS. Between March and June 2013, Ubuntu has been updated from version 10.04 to 12.04, "In the next January we plan to switch all desktop PCs to Ubuntu," Dumond says .

ByJose Antonio Gelado

Gendarumuri successfully succeeded in reducing the TCO of the computer system by about 40% by gradually replacing the software used in the organization with that of the open source one in 2004. By the summer of 2014, it is said that OS of all computers will be Ubuntu of open source, and it can be said that TCO reduction and migration of computer system are performed very well. Based on this success case, will organizations that will shift computer systems to open source ones will increase?