E-Commerce Times: Linux (Finally) Ready for the Desktop

“Ignoring a personal entreaty (and a 15 percent licensing
discount) from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the city of Munich,
Germany, decided recently to migrate its 14,000 PC desktop users
from Windows to the Linux platform.

“Laura DiDio, senior analyst of application infrastructure and
software platforms at the Yankee Group, told the E-Commerce Times
that the Munich decision has a great deal of symbolic public
relations value.

“”Munich is one of the largest cities in Germany, the country
with the strongest economy in Europe,” DiDio said, adding that
government organizations in Europe have long been proponents of
open source systems as an alternative to Microsoft
offerings…”

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