| Police pilot Linux desktops [vnunet] |
Oct. 15, 2002
English and Welsh police officers are testing Linux desktops with Netproject, which is looking at issues associated with migration to desktop Linux forthe UK Police IT Organisation (Pito) reports Peter Williams for vnunet . . .
" . . . Part of the trial involves migrating existing police applications to Linux and making use of open source software . . . "
" . . . West Yorkshire Police has 3,500 desktops and estimates a possible saving of £1m per annum on full rollout . . .prospect is deployment of secure open source desktops across police forces in England and Wales - a total of about 60,000 PCs . . . "
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[Editor's Note: Netproject is an organiztion that working on the issues of deploying Linux and Open Source to enable secure e-business. Initial cost of ownership figures show that the total cost of ownership of Linux on the desktop is 35% of that of Microsoft Windows.]
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