Linux software will replace programs made by Microsoft Corp. at government offices in Schwaebisch Hall as the German city seeks to save more than 100,000 euros ($99,255) a year. The city in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg wants to complete the software change on its 400 personal computers by the end of 2004, Schwaebisch Hall said on its Web site. Schwaebisch Hall is the first German city to stop using Microsoft programs as part of an agreement between Germany's Interior Minister Otto Schily and International Business Machines Corp., a distributor of Linux programs. IBM is pressing to bring the free Linux operating system into mainstream computing.
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