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NewsForge: Barcelona Embracing Open Source

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 26, 2004

“The city of Barcelona–Spain’s second largest city–recently
announced it will be phasing out its current Windows NT
infrastructure in favor of open source software, according to
IBLNEWS and other prominent Spanish-language news outlets.

“Barcelona’s move comes after the German city of Munich took
this same path more than a year ago, in a high-profile battle in
which Microsoft executives personally visited city officials to
make a counteroffer…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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