[luau] Linux and Munich, Germany government

[Ronald Willis]

This makes three days in a row M$ makes the news. 
1. They now offer free support and training for subscribers.
2. And today Win XP reportedly crashed 600,000 desktops. Did you say in 60
seconds? Excuse the humor on the previous sentance. The above articles
where published in the Advertiser on Tue and Wed.

But ealier this month;

Does the truth matter in this media dog eat dog business? The reporter 
confirms his bias...what are journalist learning now-a-days? 

"Yea, they all want to change the world...!" 

It is the impact of stories like this that challenges the common mans
resolve to say no to M$ and remain open and clear when a feasibilty report
is due!

Just a week in passing, It didnt help M$ in Munich...hmmmmm!

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9451
Finland "moves to Windows, not Linux"

Letter And INQUIRER terribly biased (again)

By The Letterman: Monday 12 May 2003, 14:49

As this is the birth place of Linus Torvalds (and Linux), and the Inquirer
has many times published news about "Finland moving to Linux" and so on,
here's some news from the other side (all this in Finland).
1. State department (and all Finnish embassies around the world) will be
moving to Windows Server 2003 and XP. -About 120 Servers & over 2000
desktops www.formin.fi

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On 28 May 2003, Warren Togami wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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