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Re: [News] In Germany, Linux Adoption to Come from Public Sector

  • Subject: Re: [News] In Germany, Linux Adoption to Come from Public Sector
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:19:01 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxx> espoused:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Ian Semmel belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> 
>> A full migration to Linux is "unrealistic," Schiessl said
>>
>> By the end of this year, the city of Munich plans to have migrated 
>> 200 computers to the open source desktop environment. "Most of these
>> computers are used for relatively simple office communications," he said.
>>
>> "Because of the complexity of this migration project, we decided to have 
>> a very thorough pilot phase," Schiessl said.
>>
>> EndQuotes
>>
>> If this pans out as it has in most other cases, Munich will stick to
>> windows.
> 
> What other cases are you talking about?
> 

Well, I'm not sure that there really are any, except where senior MS
officials have visited people and made "free" offers, and/or where MS
have worked to get people sacked, as they did in Mass. in the US
recently.

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