On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 13:13, Curtis Rey wrote:
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On Monday 07 April 2003 11:51 am, Fred A. Miller wrote:
"The CEO's visit appears to have paid off. The Munich city government, in a closed meeting on Friday, decided to postpone its software decision until May 28, according to the report."
Well, if nothing else, this says that they're very worried because how often does Ballmer pay personal visits to clients? I am suspicious about the "confidential" nature of the meeting - could there be some back room dealing going on here? It wouldn't surprise me in the least.
I seem to remember something about a mandate for the public sector to use OSS, but I can't remember the specifics. Hmmmm!
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As the article points out, if M$ loses Munich others will soon follow. I would think that M$ is giving Munich (officials?) some hefty pocket change in order to get them to stay with M$. Why else would there be a closed meeting. We all know M$ will get it all (and then some) back in the end and M$ has V E R Y deep pockets. Ken