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Bern, Switzerland move to Open SOurce

13-12-2012 11:57AM

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Johnboy1951

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http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/12/swiss-city-mandates-use-of-open-source-banishes-microsoft-officially/

In an overwhelming majority vote, the city council in Bern, Switzerland has moved to implement all future infrastructure with open source technologies. The “Party Motion”, as it is called in Switzerland, was submitted over a year ago, and has finally been realized. Plans to move forward with open source design, strategy and implementation should begin immediately.

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#2 13-12-2012 01:20PM

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Lets hope they do it with a well thought out plan, and the strength to resist any Microsoft pushback.

I wonder how long until they need to upgrade their operating system (ie when will it be crunchtime and the staff have to be brought accross to Linux as opposed to background systems!)

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