City of Munich goes to Linux [LWN.net]

SuSE has issued a press release stating that the city of Munich has decided to move to Linux. "This initiative will see Germany's third largest city migrate 14,000 desktop and notebook computers to Linux." The city has not yet chosen a vendor.

MS Win cheaper than Linux; Frankfurt signed MS contract.

Posted May 28, 2003 22:12 UTC (Wed) by erich (guest, #7127) [Link] (1 responses)

The newspapers wrote that the estimated costs for the Linux deployment will be 30 Million Dollars opposed to the 27,x Million in Microsofts latest proposal. There have been rumors that Microsoft even reduced this bid by 7 Million during the last few days. (So MS would have been 2/3 of the price)
It has to be noted that the Techincal University of Munich (TUM) offerered to help migrating to Linux.
Microsoft Germany is located just outside of Munich. Munich is one of the biggest centres for IT in Europe, so this is a heavy loss for Microsoft.
The city of Frankfurt is reported to have signed a contract for Microsoft software on all their machines, probably recieving a similar discount by Microsoft.

MS Win cheaper than Linux; Frankfurt signed MS contract.

Posted May 30, 2003 4:54 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

Microsoft is willing to cut the price to the bone to make the deal, but they will then charge through the nose for upgrades once they've got you hooked.