-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 May 2003 06:25, Ted Harding wrote:
On 23-May-03 Fred A. Miller wrote:
Quote from same:
While IT-experts recommended the Linux system and said it was as good as Microsoft, the institutions decided to sign a new deal with Microsoft, sources inside the institutions told the EUobserver.
"We are constantly and with great interest following and testing these open-source programmes, including Linux, but it has not been an option to replace Microsoft with Linux at this point, Deputy Secretary-General in the European Parliament", Harald Rømer told the EUobserver.
"We need a system, which is safe and can operate in 11 languages - soon 20," he said.
Don't know about "safe", but I think they may have a point where languages are concerned (yes, I know you can configure Linux for a given language, or locale, with a wide choice, but running a multi-lingual Linux is not trivial).
Ted.
This may be true, I don't know, since I've never tried it. But how much 'simpler' is it in an M$ OS? John - -- A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin and my Gecko eat butterflies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+zmTdH5oDXyLKXKQRAsX4AKCNrcI/bYXJ0iGfELqmggLQzNM+xgCgqkUI sUtBBVy7HePka6W5TV1OHRs= =FoqQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----