[Am-info] Late scores: Germany 1 Microsoft 0

[Erick Andrews]

http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,982275,00.html


John Naughton
Sunday June 22, 2003
The Observer

Something really interesting is going on in Germany. Some time ago, 
the city of Munich decided to review what should be done about 
upgrading the municipality's computing infrastructure - and specifically 
the software running on its 14,000 PCs. A thorough examination by 
consultants UnilogIntegrata AG recommended that the city could save 
money and increase security by switching from Microsoft to open source 
software - ie systems based on the Linux operating system and OpenOffice
applications. 

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Erick Andrews