The Register: Vienna Goes Oh! for Open Source

"The city of Vienna's move to open source is going well but will never embrace every desktop machine.

"Vienna's IT director Erwin Gillich told the Reg: 'It's all going well. We carried out a study two years ago looking at how many desktop machines we could move to Linux. The percentage is higher now but still not 100 per cent.' Gillich said the council would ignore some desktop machines which would be too difficult to move to Linux. Gillich said some applications would not work properly on Linux..."

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