Mikael Pawlo
writes:
As reported by Gnuheter
and IDG.net the German Parliament–Bundestag–is considering to
migrate from a Microsoft platform to Linux. The main reason is
security concerns. The Bundestag run about 5.000 computers. A
committee is investigating the issue and they are supposed to
report by late 2001 or early 2002. In either case they should be
finished before Microsoft drops it’s support for Windows NT.
“The Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament, is
exploring whether to ditch Microsoft Corp.’s Windows in favor of
the open-source Linux operating system, partly due to security
concerns.A parliamentary committee is due to decide late this year or
early in 2002 which operating system to use once it’s time to
replace Windows NT, the software currently in use on Bundestag
machines, said Volker Schroer, an adviser to the Social Democratic
party faction in the Bundestag.‘The basic problem is that Microsoft is ending its support for
NT at the end of 2002; you can continue to use it for a while, but
then you have to upgrade or switch,’ he said.”