[luau] Linux and Munich, Germany government

[Warren Togami]

Hire local company (SuSE) for government computer services, and reclaim
part of that money from taxes while stimulating local economy.  Sounds
like a good idea for anywhere outside of Washington?


http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/1855225&mode=thread&tid=109&tid=187
Munich Spurns Steve Ballmer's Software Rebates
"Steve Ballmer's recent trip to Munich to offer up to 90% rebates for
the Microsoft Software Assurance and Licenses was in vain. The ruling
party of Germans biggest city and self-proclaimed 'technology capital'
now decided to migrate 14.000 workstations to Linux and an OSS office
suite. A study comparing the alternatives had assigned 6218 (out of
10.000) points to Linux/OSS, while the MS Windows platform only scored
5293."

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1110809,00.asp
Why Munich Dumped Microsoft for Linux

http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/press_releases/archive03/munich.html
City of Munich Replaces Windows with Linux
"This initiative will see Germany's third largest city migrate 14,000
desktop and notebook computers to Linux. Their objective is to deploy
information technology that stimulates more commercial and technological
flexibility at a lower cost to the public sector."

in other news...
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/result.xhtml?url=/english/newsticker/data/jk-24.10.02-007/default.shtml&words=Munich
Head of German Branch of Microsoft Quits

Warren