[Dwn-trans-commit] CVS public_html/src/Writing/DWN

[CVS User joey]

Update of /var/cvs/infodrom.org/public_html/src/Writing/DWN
In directory finlandia:/home/users/joey/Projects/Web/public_html/src/Writing/DWN

Modified Files:
	dwn-2007-05.wml 
Log Message:
Contribution by Johannes Wiedersich: Debian in German's Foreign Ministry

--- /var/cvs/infodrom.org/public_html/src/Writing/DWN/dwn-2007-05.wml	2007/03/13 06:43:19	1.2
+++ /var/cvs/infodrom.org/public_html/src/Writing/DWN/dwn-2007-05.wml	2007/03/13 18:47:30	1.3
@@ -9,6 +9,24 @@
 use <a href="http://packages.debian.org/mercurial">Mercurial</a> for version
 control.</p>
 
+# From: Johannes Wiedersich <johannes at physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>
+
+<p><strong>German ministry of foreign affairs moves towards open source.
+</strong>The German <a href=
+"http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/en/Startseite.html">ministry of
+foreign affairs</a> saves at least 50 percent of their IT cost by
+migrating their servers and workstations from Microsoft Windows to
+Debian, according to its head of IT, Rolf Schuster in an <a href=
+"http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85977/">interview</a> with an
+german IT magazine. The ministry started the move to open source in
+2002, driven by an urge to save money on license fees and to escape from
+update cycles. The move was initiated by the creation of a highly secure
+diplomatic <a href=
+"http://www.bsi.de/fachthem/sina/sysbesch/sysbesch.htm">intranet</a>
+based on open source software and <a href=
+"http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/39494">linking</a> all 230
+foreign representations world wide.</p>
+
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