Note: This is a simple Babelfish-translation of the press release available at http://www.bmi.bund.de/dokumente/Pressemitteilung/ix_72530.htm ============================================================================ Federal Minister of the Interior Schily welcomes operating system decision of the Bundestag. The Council of Elders of the German federal daily decided today to replace the operating system Windows NT used at present in the German Bundestag by a mixture from Linux (server range) and Windows XP (Client range). Thus the Bundestag decided for a software strategy, which clearly reduces the dependence on individual manufacturers. Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily welcomes this strategy: "the decision of the federal daily is a good signal also for the administrations of the federation, the countries and the municipalities to solve their software landscapes from one-sided dependence. I see it also as confirmation of the strategy of the Federal Government, those for the federal administration an intensified employment of open SOURCE often commodity recommend." Also the Federal Ministry of the Interior sets with the migration of its systems on a mixed solution from Linux and Windows. The coordination and advisory board of the Federal Government for information technology in the federal administration (KBSt), settled in the ministry of the Interior, by publications and Workshops already in the two last years SOURCE software in the administration put important bases for the employment of open. At present and bundles it interlaces the numerous projects and together with the Federal Office for security in the information technology (BSI) a program for the promotion of pilot projects presented. -- Vyrdsamt... Jakob Breivik Grimstveit, jakob@grimstveit.no, www.grimstveit.no/jakob/ Morvikbotn 341, 5122 Morvik. Heim: +47 55195667, mob: +47 48298152 It's hard to RTFM when you can't find the FM...