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Munich Spurns Steve Ballmer's Software Rebates

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the heise-news dept.

Kurt Pfeifle writes "Steve Ballmer's recent trip to Munich to offer up to 90% rebates for the Microsoft Software Assurance and Licenses was in vain. The ruling party of Germans biggest city and self-proclaimed 'technology capital' now decided to migrate 14.000 workstations to Linux and an OSS office suite. A study comparing the alternatives had assigned 6218 (out of 10.000) points to Linux/OSS, while the MS Windows platform only scored 5293. Babelfish translation of the latest newsticker story."

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  1. Re:Munich isn't Germany's biggest city ... by the+uNF+cola · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How big is it in kilometres? Or miles... or inches :)

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  2. babelwhat? by pphrdza · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Boris Schwartz, deputy leader of the parliamentary group, takes position: "the decision Munich town councillor per Linux into the monopoly-like position of Microsoft will strike a breach. With the city Munich decides for the first time a large German municipality for open SOURCE often commodity. Beside larger economy for the city this is also a contribution for genuine competition on the market for software.

    Gotta love those computer translators...

  3. Ugh! Floppies are bad! by he-sk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't even remember using them anymore. CD-RWs replace them perfectly, and LAN connectivity even more so.

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