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Linux takes on Microsoft turf in Germany (ZDNet)

[Posted June 5, 2002 by corbet]

ZDNet looks at the purchasing deal signed by the German government, IBM, and SuSE. "With the contract with IBM we meet three key targets,' Otto Schily, Minister of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany, said in a statement. 'We raise the level of IT security by avoiding monocultures; we lower the dependency on single software vendors; and we reach costs savings in software and operation costs.'"

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Posted Jun 5, 2002 19:04 UTC (Wed) by pate (guest, #10) [Link]

Wow, what a line. He manages to touch on three things every business, NGO, and Government ought to hear:
* improve security by avoiding a monoculture
* decrease reliance on a single vendor
* reduce cost
If you're trying to advocate Free Software (or sell it), this should be your mantra.
-pate

another article about this

Posted Jun 5, 2002 20:57 UTC (Wed) by DeletedUser866 ((unknown), #866) [Link]

Here's another article about this courtesy of The Register