Ballmer chuckles over Linux woes . . . !
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01 Mar, 2004 10:55 pm Ballmer chuckles over Linux woes . . . ! [sdp=27842]  
Well, I think most of us remember that Munich, in Germany, was switching 14,000 PCs to Linux, because it was 'cheaper' than a Windows solution. Now it seems that the people in Munich are having some problems with this, and Ballmer is having a good chuckle over it!

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Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft Corp., appears to take delight in the troubles that Munich is having as it switches 14,000 city computers from Windows to a rival Linux operating system.


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The German city, roughly comparable in size to Toronto and just as strapped for cash, decided nine months ago to embrace the open-source software as a way to lower costs, improve competition in the marketplace and make the city less reliant on the world's largest software company.


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It was a high-profile defection for Microsoft, one that prompted Ballmer to cut short a family vacation and pay a visit to the Munich mayor. Ballmer offered a much better deal, but the municipality had already made up its mind.


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"They're saying it's more expensive," Ballmer told the Star yesterday.

"All of a sudden it's more expensive now to use the Linux solution than the Windows solution," he said after appearing at Microsoft's annual Can-Win event in Toronto.


The full article can be viewed here.

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07 Mar, 2004 7:01 am [sdp=28210]  
Apparently, it's the smaller vendors that are the problem, according to
this article at The Register.

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