[NBLUG/talk] Today Munich, Tomorrow the World !

[Edward Mendoza]

Today Munich, tomorrow the world!

GO LINUX !!!

Death to Microsloth!

Whoopie!!

 - Edward



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> From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org]On Behalf Of
> Mark Street
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 7:58 PM
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> Subject: [NBLUG/talk] The Wall.... is coming down...
>
>
> All right, so it isn't Berlin.......  No wonder Ballmer sold off
> a billion
> worth of MS stock last week.
>
> Microsoft Loses City of Munich Deal to Linux
> Wed May 28, 2003 12:38 PM ET
> By Hans Nagl
>
> MUNICH (Reuters) - The city of Munich said on Wednesday it would
> switch 14,000
> computers from Microsoft's Windows operating system to rival
> Linux in a deal
> estimated to be worth tens of millions of euros.
>
> The decision is a blow to U.S. giant Microsoft, whose chief
> executive Steve
> Ballmer had personally campaigned for Microsoft's counter-offer
> to the city,
> based on Windows XP.
>
> Microsoft has created two funds to discount its products against
> the emerging
> Linux software, which is eating into its most profitable business.
>
> "This strategic decision makes Munich less dependent on one IT
> supplier and
> sets a trend toward more competition," Munich mayor Christian Ude
> said in a
> statement.
>
> Analysts said Munich's decision to choose open source software,
> which means
> Linux, was a breakthrough.
>
> "It is one of the largest desktop migrations to Linux ever seen,"
> said Gartner
> Dataquest analyst Nikos Drakos in London.
>
> Linux suppliers welcomed the move by of one of Germany's largest
> cities, where
> many of the country's biggest corporations have their headquarters.
>
> "You can compare this to the fall of the Berlin Wall," said
> Richard Seibt,
> Chief Executive of Linux software provider Suse. Suse is bidding for the
> Linux contract together with International Business Machines Corp.
>
> Linux is considered by many to be the only big rival to
> Microsoft's Windows
> and can already be found on 15 percent of all computers sold in Western
> Europe.
>
> A Microsoft spokesman in Munich said his company was still at
> hand if the city
> found that certain units could not switch over to Linux. "Some
> applications
> do not run on Linux," he said.
>
> LINUX GROWING IN GERMANY
>
> The Munich decision comes as the German government is installing Linux
> throughout certain ministries and public institutions.
>
> In the northern state of Lower Saxony, 11,000 police computers will be
> switched from Microsoft Windows to Linux from next year, according to the
> interior ministry.
>
> Companies and governments are increasingly opting for Linux,
> written by Linus
> Torvalds and further developed on the Web with the help of thousands of
> volunteer programmers, because it is a stable software and not
> controlled by
> just one company.
>
> Hundreds of companies distribute the software, charging little or
> nothing for
> the core software, but taking fees on modifications, services and
> maintenance.
>
> IBM and Suse declined to give the value of the bids for their
> Linux offerings.
>
> Media have reported that Microsoft's offer of about 27.3 million
> euros ($32.3
> million) had been almost three million euros below that of the Linux
> competitor, but the city had still chosen Linux for strategic reasons.
>
> Microsoft confirmed it had offered discounts for the total project, but
> declined to give details.
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