........, says IDC, 40 percent of German corporations
were doing so as well. Last week the Bundestag,
Germany�s Parliament, decided to switch its servers to
Linux from Windows. �My wish would be to declare the
entire Bundestag a Microsoft-free zone,� said Jorg
Tauss, a deputy for the Social Democrats. It would be
irresponsible, he said, to entrust the work of
Parliament to closed-source software............
http://www.msnbc.com/news/718622.asp?cp1=1
........� � Microsoft is not taking the threat lying
down. It now allows some of its larger corporate
customers to tinker with Windows software. In Berlin,
Microsoft hired a German lobbying firm to sway the
Bundestag. In the end, Microsoft persuaded the
Parliament to continue using Windows for 5,000 new
PCs. But the servers are already in the hands of the
enemy.
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