Article entitled "Governments vote against Microsoft"

• http://news.com.com/Governments+vote+against+Microsoft/2100-7344_3-5145332.html

California State – announces that all its departments should evaluate open source software before purchasing proprietary software...

• http://cpr.ca.gov/report/cprrpt/issrec/stops/it/so10.htm

UK looking to Linux with help from IBM...

• http://news.com.com/U.K.+looking+to+Linux+with+help+from+IBM/2100-7344_3-5088481.html

Munich...

• In 2003, City of Munich decided to dump Microsoft Windows from all 14,000 of its city
  workstations and is replacing it with Linux & OpenOffice.org. The project has been delayed till 2006 due to
  patent law concerns. But it is happening now! See CNet news “map” linking several Microsoft abandonment
  stories...
• http://news.com.com/2104-1016_3-1010740.html?tag=st.bp

Vienna...

• Vienna has gone further than Munich and has released its own version of Linux called “Wienux” designed for local government users...
• http://www.wien.gv.at/english/edp/wienux.htm
  

EU to move towards open source...

• http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/report/

European Union researches the benefits of open source software...

• http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/09/16/platform.html

Even the NHS is looking at Linux...

• http://society.guardian.co.uk/internet/story/0,,1529419,00.html