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Tim Schlotfeldt ⚓🏳️🌈The Register: Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack.
Update: Oh, der Autor hat auf einen Leserkommentar, der #LiMux angesprochen hatte, geantwortet:
In fact my original copy had some hints on this subject, but I can't 100% prove it, so after some discussion with the editor, we removed it.
Munich was facing a bill of ITRO €40M to upgrade to Windows 7 and the corresponding version of MS Office.
The plan was that Linux would be cheaper.
#^https://archive.ph/jegPI
But Steve Ballmer sent out an order "Stop Linux at any cost" and MS set up what we called a "slush fund" to pay for it.
#^https://www.theregister.com/2003/05/15/ms_slush_fund_provides_big/
In the end, MS vastly reduced the price of Windows -- contemporary estimates were a 90% discount but I've not been able to find a citation -- and let Munich just licence the bits of Office it wanted, not the whole suite. Mostly that meant just Word, again, allegedly, at a steep discount.
So, Munich went back.
#OpenSource #SchleswigHolstein #DigitaleSouveränität #München
Update: Oh, der Autor hat auf einen Leserkommentar, der #LiMux angesprochen hatte, geantwortet:
In fact my original copy had some hints on this subject, but I can't 100% prove it, so after some discussion with the editor, we removed it.
Munich was facing a bill of ITRO €40M to upgrade to Windows 7 and the corresponding version of MS Office.
The plan was that Linux would be cheaper.
#^https://archive.ph/jegPI
But Steve Ballmer sent out an order "Stop Linux at any cost" and MS set up what we called a "slush fund" to pay for it.
#^https://www.theregister.com/2003/05/15/ms_slush_fund_provides_big/
In the end, MS vastly reduced the price of Windows -- contemporary estimates were a 90% discount but I've not been able to find a citation -- and let Munich just licence the bits of Office it wanted, not the whole suite. Mostly that meant just Word, again, allegedly, at a steep discount.
So, Munich went back.
#OpenSource #SchleswigHolstein #DigitaleSouveränität #München
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