[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“Microsoft is certainly taking the threat seriously. President
Steve Ballmer recently cut short his summer holiday to detour to
Munich. He wasn’t there for Oktoberfest. He was visiting the city
council to try to talk them out of their decision to mandate
open-source software for the city’s IT infrastructure.“Out with Windows, replaced by Unix. Out with Microsoft Office,
replaced by Star Office. Munich is a pleasant town but it is not a
vast metropolis. The loss of a few seats in Bavaria would make no
noticeable dent in Microsoft’s vast revenues. So why was Ballmer so
concerned…?”