Barcelona embracing open source

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2004-07-26-017-26-NW-PB

"The city of Barcelona–Spain’s second largest city–recently announced it will be phasing out its current Windows NT infrastructure in favor of open source software, according to IBLNEWS and other prominent Spanish-language news outlets.

"Barcelona’s move comes after the German city of Munich took this same path more than a year ago, in a high-profile battle in which Microsoft executives personally visited city officials to make a counteroffer…"