NL: Amsterdam begins it's final Open Source desktop test

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Fri, 08/29/2008 - 02:20

Chair Alarm in Redmond!!! Ballmer on his way to Europe, offering "donations" if the tests should "fail"?Using sixty desktop PCs running Open Source software, the city council of the city of Amsterdam this month is running its final test to see if all 10.000 PCs in use by the central city administration can be migrated to Open Source.


 

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