The Mille projectIn their press release, the GRICS takes the worst analyse of the Mille portal (with consultation time and maintenance contract) and compare it to the best analyse of GRICS portal. They also remove the mail server cost because they will propose an open source mail server solution soon.

Even with these changes, the GRICS report presents the Mille portal cheaper than the GRICS portal.

Note that the Mille project, with a budget of $1M in money and time contribution, release 6 sub project including:
- open source world analyses (L’Ã©tat de l’art)
- educative portal (Mille-BV)
- clustered version of LTSP for massive xterm deployment (Mille-XTerm)
- a free software distribution for schools (Colibris)
- an open source middealware (Mille-Infrastructure)
- Economics analyses