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Nine German cities poised to adopt Linux (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld reports that nine (more) German cities (Alzey, Kaiserslautern, Koblenz, Landau, Mainz, Neustadt, Speyer, Trier and Worms, all in Rheinland Pfalz) are looking at switching over to Linux. "The cost of licensing Microsoft products and the lack of support for some of them, such as the NT operating system, which is still used widely in many city administrations, are among the chief reasons for the nine German cities to mull a switch from the U.S. software giant to providers of open-source products..."

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