Munich has started to migrate to Linux on the desktop -- a year later than planned.
The City of Munich will not start its migration to Linux on the desktop until 2006, a year later than planned and three years since it decided to migrate to Linux.
A number of schools in the US state of Indiana have deployed Linux in a pilot project that could lead to every secondary school pupil in the state using the open source operating system, software company Linspire said last Thursday.
The Norwegian City of Bergen is now midway through its migration to Linux on the server, and is looking forward to making very significant savings in software, hardware, licensing and support.
Proprietary software vendors are driving IT managers towards the open-source community through their high prices and restrictive licences, according to attendees at this week's Cal-IT conference.
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