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Vienna to softly embrace Linux
The local government of Vienna is due to start migrating its desktop PCs to open-source software in the second quarter of this year.
Erwin Gillich, the head of information technology at the Austrian capital's municipal authority, said this will be a "soft migration," in which users have the option of switching from Microsoft Office 2000 to the open-source productivity application OpenOffice.org and from Microsoft Windows 2000 to Linux. As OpenOffice runs on Windows as well as Linux, users can switch the productivity application without changing their operating system.
Source: ZDNet
