__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:02 \__
> Microsoft Germany CEO quits over strategy
>
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> | He said Redmond was forcing increasing restrictions on its German
> | subsidiary and ignoring local requirements.
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> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/10/11/microsoft_germany_boss_quits/
CIO has just got some juicy details which explain the reason why he left in
anger.
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| German newspapers, including Financial Times Deutschland and
| Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, have obtained a copy of an e-mail
| sent by Gallmann to Microsoft?s German employees in which the
| executive complained of the group?s world headquarters in Redmond,
| Wash., imposing increasing restrictions on the German operations and
| showing little interest in local requirements.
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http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=25608
That precisely is why choice (diversity) and control are important.
Also see:
Indian schools to use homebrew Debian distro
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| IT@School GNU/Linux is a customized, single-CD distribution that includes
| the applications typically required by a high school student or teacher,
| according to the project. Apart from a wide range of typical desktop
| software, it also contains educational programs such as TuxPaint,
| Ghemical, Kalzium, DrGeo, and Gcompris, school spokesperson Vimal Joseph
| told DesktopLinux.com.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8687173118.html
Indian schools to use homebrew Debian distro
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| IT@School GNU/Linux is a customized, single-CD distribution that includes
| the applications typically required by a high school student or teacher,
| according to the project. Apart from a wide range of typical desktop
| software, it also contains educational programs such as TuxPaint,
| Ghemical, Kalzium, DrGeo, and Gcompris, school spokesperson Vimal Joseph
| told DesktopLinux.com.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8687173118.html
http://www-5.ibm.com/de/schule/projekte/img/image_index.jpg
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