Microsoft Loses Showdown in Houston

An anonymous reader writes "It seems the city of Houston has decided against using Microsoft software. It really is amazing how much it costs to use (and maintain) software. I can't help but wonder if this will become a trend." Turns out they decided on the relativly unknown SimDesk suite, which has nothing to do with The Sims, sadly. Many, many posts about this. In additional news seldo writes "There's an interesting interview on News.Com with Peter Houston. He discusses Microsoft's changing attitude in competing with Linux -- no longer calling it a "cancer" but instead promoting the advantages of Windows."

Comments

First thoughts on the choise of Simdesk..

[rasjani]

Where that people who have heard about OSS software and are actually reviewing oss projects to be used in their environment will eventually realize that hey, "If these guys do it for free and things are this good, there might be even better (for them) even if it costs or not when comparing to Microsoft products".

So, it OSS will create competition even thou it might not be gaining market share. Which is good imho.

Re:Err

[Fig, formerly A.C.]

Alternately, people could just learn how to f*cking spell everyday words correctly. How tough is that? These aren't exactly college level words, you know.