ZDNet UK: French Opt For Laissez-Faire Linux

"'Think small, start small, scale up.' The strategy ex-Wal-Mart executive Michael Bergdahl claims was responsible for creating one of the most successful businesses ever, is good advice for organisations looking to adopt open source.

"Organisations that 'think big' when deploying open source can run into problems. Take the City of Munich, which decided to migrate its 14,000 desktops to Linux two years ago, but is not actually going to start the migration until 2006, claiming that an 'additional pilot' is necessary..."

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