Will Munich's Linux Desktops Be Running Windows?

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 20, 2003 @01:17PM 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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Re:The usuual crap from Gartner.. by fanatic · 2003-07-20 13:57 · 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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