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Microsoft software itself more about their own organization then. the topic of law because it basically means that they have internal problem that they have to fix but it doesn't mean that there can't be this regard for human what does the procurement law exactly say for the procurement law describes. several situations in which you can ask for a brand name being locked in is not an excuse to disregard the procurement rules. there are alternatives. back in two thousand and four a social democratic mayor of munich christiane decided the city administration would switch from microsoft windows to...

Administration can customize it for its own purposes without asking a corporation for permission but most government i.t. managers believe that there is no alternative to microsoft in public administration even though open source software has become a profitable industry. that it's no longer true that alternatives don't exist that may be true twenty years ago when you had to install the software on your windows p.c. . so why aren't european states making the switch to free themselves from this dependency . it reminds me of the renewable energy debate people said solar power was impossible it d...

Was specially designed for that work. these many thousands of special programs were designed for the windows operating system and the more complex information technology becomes the more our public institutions become dependent on the microsoft monopoly. it's a problem that martin charbel the former german director general for information technology knows well it. isn't the german off orators are de facto dependent on microsoft because with very few exceptions microsoft products are used in every government office and. that means it's not easy to use different software. all documents exist in ...

Happens to our data. it's only going to get a start of the e.u. commission disagrees. with microsoft alternative on the market that. works. i'm sorry but that's a flat out lie of course it's feasible to switch to open source software to process the files and government organizations like the european commission those alternatives exist of open source software as. there are not suppliers and bitter is good does that and providers the suppliers do exist they just aren't competitive that's the only difference to solve this problem the european union just needs to say in public tenders we want to ...

A report showed that a large majority of city employees were happy with the limerick system the report did find fault with munich's i t administration but the problem was not with the linux software the problem was that the city gave i.t. administrators in the various departments too much leeway to chart their own course according to the former head of munich's i.t. department it was this lack of uniformity that was the problem not the underlying linux system city employees were not permitted to grant us an interview but an expert from the city i.t. department was willing to speak with us anon...