The French army decided to use the mail client Mozilla Thunderbird instead of Microsoft Outlook, reports Reuters.Thunderbird and its modification TrustedBird, developed by the French with Mozilla, have already been installed on 80 thousand computers Ministry of Defense, a similar decision made in ministries of finance, internal affairs and culture.
Choosing the military, reportedly due to security, reliability and open-source programs.
Mozilla's openness allows us to develop a system security program, while the private code of Microsoft software does not allow to modify the software. Furthermore, while Microsoft regularly releases "patches" for their products, engineers Mozilla, according to the French, far more quickly eliminate the detected vulnerabilities in their applications.
The possibility of switching from Microsoft products to alternative solutions, the French Government has begun to consider in 2003. Then the authorities wanted to "get the most technological and commercial independence."
The French Government is also interested in the development of Linux instead of Windows and OpenOffice - instead of Microsoft Office.
