qeldroma Posted May 27, 2003 Report Share Posted May 27, 2003 The Munich city council has decided to take IBM-Linux AND OOffice for .., I HAVE TO SPELL THIS: ################################ FOUR...TEN.....THOUSAND!!!!! ################################ 14.000 PCs and 16.000 users. This decision has took about one year, the german M$-Manager stopped his holidays last week exactly for this and offered another M$-prize. At the end of last week, it seems like the decision goes to M$, but yesterday came the last decision and it was linux, because the overall prize is the same as M$, but the quality is abundantly clear on the OpenSource side The governing major is straight about this signing impact on the business, but wants to show munich as modern and interesting IT-landscape for investions and embraces this decision. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-26.05.03-004/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted May 27, 2003 Report Share Posted May 27, 2003 GREAT! Show them Munich!!! <note to evil mods> now only if posts like this would get transferred to the everything linux forum. </note to evil mods> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted May 27, 2003 Report Share Posted May 27, 2003 ramfree: all others: this thread has been move by the official * Not-so-evil * moderator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted May 27, 2003 Report Share Posted May 27, 2003 ramfree: all others: this thread has been move by the official * Not-so-evil * moderator hmmmn. although your response time is improving, the cheeky emoticon is making me doubt if i have to demote you to "Almost-Not-so-Evil moderator":tm: status. :? :#: ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted May 27, 2003 Report Share Posted May 27, 2003 Now I love Munich even more then I originally did! I had a great holiday there, now not only do they have some of the World's hottest women, they've gone open source! :wub: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted May 27, 2003 Report Share Posted May 27, 2003 Can we have free beer, please?Virtual Paulaner would be fine. angel-mods? Or do you think we better wait for the final decision (tomorrow in the Munich council)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted May 27, 2003 Report Share Posted May 27, 2003 I thought the vote is going to be on Wednesday.. from what I see in the (badly translated) article, it seems that so far about 60% of the seat in the vote are sympathetic to linux while 40% are windows users. The margin is somewhat thin for me so that M$ can always bribe just a little of that 10% to sway the vote back to them. Anyway, I just don't want to keep my hopes up.. not gonna jinx it.. nope, not me.. I'll celebrate with you if the votes are out and Munich truly choose linux. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qeldroma Posted May 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2003 @DragonMage: Well, the major party (SPD) has got choosen. And not all others are M$. So, if the major party AND some of the others choose.... ....In the press, it is seen as final, i hope so :shock: @SoulSe: HEYY!!! You did NOT see the women here in Hamburg!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted May 27, 2003 Report Share Posted May 27, 2003 @geldroma würdest du bitte deinen Beitrag editieren und das geschmacklose 'Bildchen' rausnehmen. Es gibt doch weiss Gott genug sites aufm web, wo Du Deine pubertären Bedürfnisse befriedigen kannst Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest arise Posted May 27, 2003 Report Share Posted May 27, 2003 Of course Munchen chose Linux, because they are broke as a city :) Stadt Munchen = PLEITE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted May 28, 2003 Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 If this is indeed true, then this is indeed another good news for the open source community. EDIT: Another confirming news from The Inquirer.net: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9678 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted May 28, 2003 Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 Ok.. you can celebrate now.. it's official. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ch_microsoft_dc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 28, 2003 Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 linux advocates while microsoft :banghead: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qeldroma Posted May 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted May 28, 2003 Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 Hopefully the start of a landslide. 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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