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chuckle	by: Jaccoverhoeven
This man chuckles about the fact that one of his own customers has difficulty to loosen the iron grip that ms has on them. Why does ms has an iron grip? Not because of any application or OS of theirs that Munich uses. It must be the very specific applications which only are written for ms stuff and only for this municipality. So the iron grip of ms is not even due to their own merits or it must be the game with the market they've been playing for about 25 years or so. This grown up man thinks it's funny when his customers want to loosen his grip on them and have difficulty with that. I hope the whole world has seen this or read about his behaviour. It will be an extra spur to choose another company's software or open source software

Ballmer Chuckles	by: NeilG
chuckle... well he would, wouldn't he? Fact is that MS are slowly but surely loosing their stranglehold on the desktop market (at long last). Instead of laughing the people at the top of MS should be crying and running for cover in the face of open source threats to their throne :=)

pssst	by: The Birdman
How good it is for PR to chuckle at a customer that M$ lost. I think the city will have some more knowledgable people in IT because of Linux

O/S Migration	by: NetGuy
Migrating from any O/S to another will almost always incur more liabilities than expected. Many situations caused by a large-scale migration are impossible to account for prior to the implementation phase of a migration project. As for Mr. Ballmer, it's easy to stand outside a recently migrated enterprise and point at the cost overruns and inflated initial TCO. If Mr. Ballmer and I sat down for coffee, I would greatly enjoy sharing the obscene costs of migrating from UNIX to Windows; and that was only in the planning phase of the migration.

keep quiet, Steve	by: rich4421972
I think Microsoft would best be served if their CEO would keep his antics and mannerisms confined to the board room. Every time Steve makes the news it is because of some outlandish reaction he has had to Linux, IBM, Sun or any other competing company producing enterprise-level products. He is just a strange character. I don't think his latest "chuckle" is conclusive at all.

Ballmer Chuckles	by: PugMan
Am I reading the article incorrectly? It seems to say that the migration is more expensive than anticipated. Yet, Mr. Ballmer is making the claim that the government has found that running Linux is more expensive than running Windows. His conclusion is not based on the correct premises.