German Linux migration not a taxing decision
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| The migration process has "entered its peak phase", with 300 systems
| ported every day, according to Eva Brucherseifer, president of theKDE
| community in Germany, and managing director of basysKom, the consultancy
| which configured the desktop.
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| The quality of German language support was also decisive; SuSE has strong
| German support and the development of KDE was part funded by the German
| government.
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| The German public sector has embraced open source enthusiastically. Nine
| out of every 10 German local authorities are using open source software,
| according to the MERIT survey, and OpenOffice.org is being run on more
| than 50,000 PCs in the German public sector, according to Erwin
| Tenhumberg, a product marketing manager at Sun.
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