German Police Union Wants Linux Instead of Windows

Nov 19, 2007, 14:30 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Wolfgang Lonien)

"The Berlin-based union of the German police issued a press release two days ago, where they said that their 'Poliks' system to handle reports isn't stable and reliable enough...

"The demand of the police union now is to drop the Microsoft-based software and to reconsider the usage of free and open source systems instead..."

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