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That there is only one provider that can provide this particular solution the technical solution so there is no other possibility and what we've seen is that we if we did do call for tender in open court for tender for provision we would land with microsoft anyway and it would be much more expensive because what they're doing now is negotiating a price list together with microsoft directly which gives a huge discount well it sounds very reasonable but this actually means that they have a problem within their organization. because they are obviously locked in. they are in a optimal situation be...

A report showed that a large majority of city employees were happy with the limo 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 anonymo...

Closed source codes that microsoft and others insist on and switch to our own open source code we're taking a risk of course the european union and the european market could just become a kind of colony for these companies so of course we won't be able to control what happens to our data. in the going to get routing a start of the e.u. commission disagrees. with microsoft it's the alternative of 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 tazer of government organizations like the european commis...

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. 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 microsoft...

Microsoft software it says 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 would have decided the city administration would switch from microsoft windows t...