On Tuesday 02 January 2007 17:45 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Munich buys Windows 2000 used licenses
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> | Second hand licenses are growing in popularity. In the UK, sales
> | of second-hand Microsoft software licences are, apparently,
> | doubling month-on-month.
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> | [...]
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> | Not so long ago Hamburg based pharmaceutical company Klosterfrau bought
> | 600 licenses of long forgotten Office 97, and then resold them to
> | another company Susensoftware.
> |
> | The only problem of course: expired product support. Microsoft
> | phased out mainstream support for its Windows 2000 client and
> | server releases on June 30 2005.
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> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/01/02/munich_buys_windows_2000/
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> Munich is gradually moving to Debian, so it won't need these licences for
> long anyway.
AFAIR, it's moving about 75% of its machines to Linux.
Have you any idea what MS OS the rest are running?
When I read this, it crossed my mind that perhaps they were going to
standardise on W2K for the 25%.
Presumably, MS will see not a cent of the money though?:-)
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