“A tip we received yesterday led us to contact the City of
Largo, Florida, to run down a rumor about a move from KDE to Ximian
Gnome desktops at the city. We learned that although the city is
considering such a shift, no decision has yet been made. As
reported in NewsForge.com about this same time last year, Largo has
managed to provide essential IT services for less than half what
small cities usually allocate in their budgets for IT through its
utilization of open source solutions.“We checked first with Novell spokesman Kevan Barney. He told us
that he had not heard anything about such a migration, so we went
directly to City of Largo’s IT Manager, Harold Schomaker, and asked
him…”