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ZDNet UK: Vienna to Softly Embrace Linux

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 26, 2005

The Austrian capital city of Vienna’s local government is due to
start migrating its desktop PCs to open source software in the
second quarter of this year.

“Erwin Gillich, the head of IT at Vienna’s municipal authority,
said this will be a ‘soft migration’ where users have the option of
switching from Microsoft Office 2000 to the open source
productivity application OpenOffice.org, and from Microsoft Windows
2000 to Linux…”


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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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