[Linux-bruxelles] Fwd: [b.higginbottom at trinityhigh.com: Re: [SLE] Did Munich pull out of the Suse Linux deal?]

[Alain Barthélemy]

Juste info ...

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Subject: Re: [SLE] Did Munich pull out of the Suse Linux deal?
From: Ben Higginbottom <b.higginbottom at trinityhigh.com>
Date:  Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:05:18 +0000 (GMT)
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On 24/01/05 03:27 AM, James Mohr <suse_mailing_list at jimmo.com> wrote:

> Hi All!
> 
> Someone told me that  the city of Munich was no longer going to switch to 
> Suse. He claims the reason was that it was too expensive. I couldn't find 
> anything about it and he couldn't remember where he saw/read it. It *could* 
> be the he or his source is just spreading FUD, but I was wondering if anyone 
> else had heard anything.

The last I heared was that it was still going ahead but at a slower rate. Like Bergen, Paris and on a rather smaller scale Trinity theres a lot more work to do in a desktop conversion than first seems necessary, especially in regards to training the end users. Many of us on this list have probably used dozens of operating systems over the years, but for someone whose only ever used win98 and doesnt have a computer at home having your start button replaced with either geeko or kgears and MS Office with OOo its going to be a bit traumatic.

The extra time they've added to the projects is only going to make it more of a sucess.

In specific regards to Munich, the used car salesman crossed with a mafia don that is Steve Ballmer did apparently pay  the Munich authorities a visit and made them an offer they did refuse to undercut the Suse/IBM bid sometime last year. Which makes it far more interesting as they apparently went for the best on balance bid as opposed to the cheapest.

Regards,

Ben


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