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Vienna Hobbles Open-Source Migration

“In a setback for the City of Vienna’s three-year-old
open-source migration programme, city authorities decided on
Wednesday to scrap most of the systems that have so far adopted the
city’s custom-built Linux distribution, instead approving an
€8m migration to Windows Vista.

“The Vienna district council on Wednesday formally approved a
budget of €8m (£6.3m [US$12.5m]) for migrating Windows
2000 systems to Vista and Office 2007, according to a report from
Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), the Austrian national public
service broadcaster…”

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