From: Peter Sawatzki 

IBM says this gets Linux the "knighthood":

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-28.05.03-006/ (in German)

Peter


In article , adam{at}NOSPAM_softfab.com says...
> http://www.suse.co.uk/uk/company/press/press_releases/archive03/munich.html
>
> Hey Peter is this thing now settled? Ink dry on contracts etc?
>
> " City of Munich Replaces Windows with Linux
>
> May 28th 2003
>
> The city council of Munich today made a key decision to deploy the open
> source operating system Linux instead of alternative operating systems.
> This initiative will see Germany's third largest city migrate 14,000
> desktop and notebook computers to Linux. Their objective is to deploy
> information technology that stimulates more commercial and technological
> flexibility at a lower cost to the public sector. Although the council
> has not made a decision on its choice of vendor, Linux distributor SuSE
> AG and IBM Germany will be participating in the resulting contract bid. "
>
> What was that MS memo again...Under NO circumstances do what?
>
> Adam
>
>

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