amiga-news.de - PC Games: Munich decides for Linux

28.May.2003
pcgames.de (ANF) PC Games: Munich decides for Linux
»The Munich city council has decided today that in future on all 14,00 PCs and notebooks of the city Linux software will be used instead of Microsoft programs. The council followed with this decission a claim of the 1st municipal Christian Ude. The migration to the open source operating system should be done steadily during the next years. Initially the public offices which use mostly office applications should be changed to the new software. The costs of this change including teaching courses are guessed to nearly 30 million Euros«.
Read the full article (German) by the title link.

Further links regarding this topic:
Golem: München pro Linux: Stadtrat lässt Microsoft abblitzen
heise: IBM: Münchener Entscheidung ein "Ritterschlag für Linux"
heise: CSU kritisiert Münchener Entscheidung als "Software-Abenteuer"
SPIEGEL: MÜNCHEN WÄHLT LINUX SuSE beißt Bill
(ps) (Translation: ub)

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