The French Education Ministry is deploying thousands of Red Hat Linux-based servers while Germany is moving 40 percent of its university students to Suse Linux.
The City of Munich has chosen to migrate its 14,000 desktops to a free Linux distribution, rather than a commercial version of the open source operating system.
In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards -- not cost -- is driving the German city's shift to Linux.
Microsoft has had its share of bad courtroom experiences, but lately the software giant has been taking some of its hardest knocks in city council and legislative chambers.
Munich has started to migrate to Linux on the desktop -- a year later than planned.
In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards -- not cost -- is driving the German city's shift to Linux.
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