From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:459af166{at}w3.nls.net...
> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/01/02/munich_buys_windows_2000/
>
> "The German city of Munich is buying a whole pile of Microsoft Windows
> this month - but it won't be the newly released Windows Vista. Instead,
> it will buy 2000 legit "used licenses" of Windows 2000 Professional,
> claiming it will save them money.
>
> The licenses are bought from Munich based company Usedsoft, which buys
> up licenses from other companies that no longer use them."
>
> Adam

Looks like the Munich Linux migration is going rather slow. They announced
the switch in 2002. 100 users in 4 years?

It looks like Amsterdam and Vienna are considering Linux along with some
departments in Australia. Hopefully Vista will spur them on. At least some
of Europe will be able to compute when the Microsoft kill switch goes off


http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Amsterdam_to_evaluate_open_source/0,1
30061733,339272840,00.htm

And Munich has transferred 100 users to the Debian configuration. It plans
to migrate 80 percent of its PCs to Linux by the middle of 2009.

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