Munich reverses course, may ditch Linux for Microsoft | Linux Today

Munich reverses course, may ditch Linux for Microsoft

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Jon Gold
Aug 19, 2014

The German city of Munich, long one of the open-source community’s poster children for the institutional adoption of Linux, is close to performing a major about-face and returning to Microsoft products.

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Jon Gold

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