From: Peter Sawatzki 

In article , warthawg{at}austin.rr.com says...
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:27:53 +0200, Peter Sawatzki wrote:
>
> >
> > Seems MS made also good progress with their Shared Source initiatives as
> > it made finally a deal with our German government about licensing of
> > Microsoft products within the government IT world. After making a deal
> > with IBM on Linux support our government was also able to make a good deal
> > with MS:
> >
> >  http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-10.04.03-007/ (german only)
> >
> > Peter
>
> Significant savings from the extremely high prices they normally gouge
> folks for?  Tell us more.  How much of a savings did they get.  And how
> much freedom did they have to give up to get it?

AFAIK the details were not and will not be disclosed. The
"bundestux" website also seems to have no further info:

http://www.bundestux.de/presse/10111.html

Peter

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