The City of Vienna & Open Source: A Fuzzy-Logic Story

"What do you do, when as municipal city planning council, you have invested time and money into creating and customising a Linux based operating system as an alternative to Microsoft Windows called Wienux, and while the second phase of a study into the viability of Linux and Open Source software for your office environment is yet to be published in the summer of 2008?

"No, you don't wait for the results of the study, instead you decide to spend 7.600.000 Euro prematurely in order to buy, no it's not April yet, Windows Vista licences..."

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