........, says IDC, 40 percent of German corporations were doing so as well. Last week the Bundestag, Germany�s Parliament, decided to switch its servers to Linux from Windows. �My wish would be to declare the entire Bundestag a Microsoft-free zone,� said Jorg Tauss, a deputy for the Social Democrats. It would be irresponsible, he said, to entrust the work of Parliament to closed-source software............
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........� � Microsoft is not taking the threat lying down. It now allows some of its larger corporate customers to tinker with Windows software. In Berlin, Microsoft hired a German lobbying firm to sway the Bundestag. In the end, Microsoft persuaded the Parliament to continue using Windows for 5,000 new PCs. But the servers are already in the hands of the enemy. � � � �
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