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Will Munich's Linux Desktops Be Running Windows?

Posted by timothy on from the fingernails-on-the-well dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Remember that story about the city of Munich choosing Linux to power 14,000 desktop computers? One aspect of this story that most people don't know about is that up to 80 percent of those Linux desktops will be equipped with VMWare, a virtual machine emulator, under which they will run Windows and Windows applications. That's right, folks: The majority of those 'Linux desktops' will be used to run ... Windows." This Gartner report from early June seems to be the one mentioned in the article, though I'm not sure exactly where Thurrott gets the 80% figure.

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  1. Re:The usuual crap from Gartner.. by fanatic · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    An anonymous Coward said: Look at the slashboi banging his head against the keyboard and screaming "it can't be!!! it's not true!!!1! it's all FUD from M$!!!"

    That's the best you can do? Pathetic.

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    "that's not encryption - it's a new perl script that I'm working on..." - from some Matrix parody
  2. RTF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There's no reason not to send out all word processing files in RTF format. Then, everyone can read them.

  3. Re:The usuual crap from Gartner.. by fanatic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    2 thought it funny, one thought it a troll. Wow, I'm impressed. Also, since you ahve som,little respect for 'slashbois', why do you fall back on their opinions to defend yourself? Still pathetic. Let's hear a fact, or an informed opinion.

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    "that's not encryption - it's a new perl script that I'm working on..." - from some Matrix parody