Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 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.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | 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.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | 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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> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39274196,00.htm
Interesting link. All this time I was under the impression that they
were moving from Windows to Linux. It turns out that they have
thousands of Solaris machines (desktops) they are migrating. I'm
surprised that anyone would have deployed thousands of Solaris machines
as desktops.
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