A provincial German town drops Microsoft for Linux (Boston.com)

[Posted March 25, 2003 by corbet]

Boston.com looks at the German city of Schwaebisch Hall, which is switching over to Linux. "The open-source software can be freely copied by the more than 400 new Linux users employed by Schwaebisch Hall, which is encouraging them to copy the software on their work computers for home use... By year's end Schwaebisch Hall, working with Nuremberg-based SuSE and IBM Germany, will have switched all 300 desktop computers and 15 servers recording tax payments, business licenses and library checkout records." (Thanks to Ashwin N.)

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