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."
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/07/HNballmer_1.html>
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