____/ Matt on Friday 04 April 2008 11:22 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> They must be looking at their peer to find successful
>> migration. It's the domino effect.
>
>
http://www.muenchen.de/cms/prod1/mde/_de/rubriken/Rathaus/40_dir/limux/publ/first_year.pdf
>> We are not alone
>> Munich doesn ́t work isolated: intensive transfer of know-how with other
>> agencies, internationale partners and the Open Source Community generates
>> solutions.
It's not just Germany, either. Same story in Holland where they probably
migrate even more 'aggressively'. Microsoft goes a long way at the moment
(even donating hardware) to slow down the momentum, but the outcome seems
inevitable.
The following was said just a couple of days ago by a firm that is largely
funded by Microsoft:
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| Gartner estimates that the market share for desktop Linux is about 2% in the
| Asia-Pacific region, 4.5% in Eastern Europe, and 4% in the Middle East and
| Africa. By contrast, Linux holds 1.2% of the desktop market in the U.S.
`----
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207001577
The real figures are higher than this and I imagine they only check businesses,
not home. They use Microsoft-supplies figures in many cases.
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