French parliament uses Kubuntu systems[1].

Also, the National Botanic Garden of Belgium[2], which is sort of a government institution, uses Ubuntu too[3].

And there are also the thousands of PCs in schools in Macedonia[4], Andalusia[5] (Spain) and Assam[6] (India) for example.

I think there are more than enough government contracts that have Ubuntu deployments to make the plural “wins” accurate…

(After a refresh before submitting I now also see the Nicaragua case from RyanT.)

[1] http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/informatique/0,39040745,39367717,00.htm
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Botanic_Garden_of_Belgium
[3] http://www.workswithu.com/the-works-with-u-1000/works-with-u-1000-m-0/
[4] http://www.ubuntu.com/news/macedonia-school-computers
[5] http://www.ubuntu.com/products/casestudies/Andalusia%20deploys%20220,000%20Ubuntu%20desktops%20in%20schools%20throughout%20the%20region
[6] http://www.ubuntu.com/products/casestudies/amtron

http://www.livemint.com/2009/11/03005115/Ubuntu-bets-on-cloud-computing.html

http://leogg.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/20000-ubuntu-laptops-for-teachers-in-nicaragua/

http://www.redhat.com/solutions/government/certifications/#tab3

http://www.redhat.com/solutions/government/certifications/#tab1

You should at least do a little research before making statements. To name a few
Germany http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2023127.stm
Sweden http://www.osor.eu/news/se-swedish-army-considers-server-migration-to-gnu/?searchterm=None
Brazil http://news.cnet.com/Brazils-love-of-Linux/2009-1042_3-6245409.html

Also the New York Stock Exchange http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/linux/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207800195
and many banks http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-122267.html

It appears that they would have been. From Canonical’s Landscape page:

>Landscape is free of charge to all of Canonical’s support customers

The French police deployment that you reference involved Canonical gifting support services as part of the deployment.
Cananical provided support.. at no cost.[1] Doesn’t say if part of those gifted services were Landscape subscriptions so I won’t assume that they are.

But I have to ask, how do you make money as a service company if you are giving away your services to make deployments happen? It’s a nice gesture and all and I’m sure the French police have nice warm fuzzy feelings..but isn’t support services the point of Canonical’s business plan? At some point Canonical actually has to get paying customers.

But that was several months ago now so maybe that’s changed. Here’s your homework assignment. Is the French goverment contracting with Canonical for any support services now? And if so what services and how much. As this is a government agency the specifics numbers should be a matter of public record I would hope.

-jef

[1]Reference:
http://www.osor.eu/case_studies/towards-the-freedom-of-the-operating-system-the-french-gendarmerie-goes-for-ubuntu

“The initial migration process was thus tackled without additionalfunds. To support the system in the long run, the Bureau Securité Architecture has decided to contract a commercial partner to give advice to technical issues on a high-level. For this, a public tender has been started, which is a necessary step according to French law. At the moment Canonical Ltd., which is also the potential partner in the future, is giving this support at no costs, as the project is both important and interesting to them. So far, there is no information available as to how high the budget for the third party support will be, as the final decision in the public tender has not been made at the time of this writing.”