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Open standards push Mannheim to Linux

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"We want to decide our IT strategy in Mannheim and not have Microsoft make the decision for Mannheim," declares Gerd Armbruster, the IT infrastructure manager at the German city. For in Mannheim, open standards — not cost — is the main driver of the software strategy.

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Comments (2)

Way to go!

colesen9 ·
The first paragraph of the article says it all. It's going take guts. I like it.

Whether the software is free and not free, open source or closed source, open standard or not, or if it is Linux or not Linux...

what matters is that

we get this ecosystem healed. The inbreeding and cleansing is so deep that only one stands a chance of mixing up the gene pool - FOSS.

Munich,Paris,Vienna,Massachusetts. And now Mannheim. Who's next?

Matter of time...

helios ·
Gerd, watch your @$$. Your tax records will be public domain in the next 24 hours as well as your sexual preferences and any boyhood indiscretions you may have had. OH...I forgot to ask...who controls your travel expenditure records?

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