ZDNet UK: Vienna to Softly Embrace Linux

The Austrian capital city of Vienna's local government is due to start migrating its desktop PCs to open source software in the second quarter of this year.

"Erwin Gillich, the head of IT at Vienna's municipal authority, said this will be a 'soft migration' where users have the option of switching from Microsoft Office 2000 to the open source productivity application OpenOffice.org, and from Microsoft Windows 2000 to Linux..."

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