Battle heats up Munich software deal(OT)

Battle heats up Munich software deal "MUNICH - In a battle heating up over a software deal for the city administration of Munich, US giant Microsoft has lowered its price offer by 15 per cent in order to prevent the city switching to Linux, Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) reported Wednesday. FTD cited a city council spokeswoman as saying that the council was now leaning to choose Microsoft over Linux. The council is to make a decision May 28." http://expatica.com/germany.asp?pad=190,205,&item_id=31422 -- Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Pro & KMail 1.5.1 Never forget: At Microsoft, the engineering department are the Ferengi... The marketing and legal departments are the Borg!