Munich Finally Starts to Embrace Linux 154
sankyuu writes "After years of rumor and vacillation over fear of patents, the city of Munich has decided to trickle in its first 100 linux terminals. The floodgates are scheduled to fling open by 2008, when 80% of government PCs should be running Linux."
Mayor's PC among the first (Score:5, Informative)
additional info (Score:5, Informative)
however, the main reason for the delays and the slow roll-out are that a lot of custom applications had to be ported and for some existing client/server apps interfaces had to be created from scratch.
cheers from Munich,
Andreas
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Rhine... (Score:5, Informative)
Some Open Source headways in Europe, indeed, can clearly be seen in EU site [europa.eu].
Quite heartening indeed! Maybe the big conservative companies will finaly notice this trend. I am sure Microsoft did.
Re:Just curious (Score:5, Informative)
See here:
http://www.muenchen.de/Rathaus/dir/limux/english/
OK?
Re:holy not cost effective, batman! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Behind the scenes... (Score:5, Informative)
With the major and of course a majority in the city council backing this, they started a very gradual and careful way to change, with a halt since 2004 because they needed a risk analysis in the case that software patents would be installed EU-wide. The cost risk turned out to be pretty small, as for every patent there can be a workaround eventually, linux is based on code that is already known since the 60s, and some other reasons. In the mean time they made sure they had automated software install systems working, and other practical issues resolved. The big news now is that they will actually start with the first linux machines for office employees. First ones will be for office work that requires interchangeable software (word processor, etc), then more complicated office work will follow.
The headline is mis-leading! (Score:3, Informative)
The sentence should read, "Munich Finally Starts Implementing Linux."
The embrace happened a few years ago. It's (Linux) implementation is what has just happened. By the way...does anyone know whether it's KDE or GNOME at the forefront here?
Re:Just curious (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Just curious (Score:4, Informative)
that site has general information about the Linux-Project and a link to this site:
http://www.ssrc.org/wiki/POSA/index.php?title=LiM
Re:Octoberfest (Score:1, Informative)
Actually the Octoberfest is in September and ends Oct 3rd, so once the hangover is gone the can migrate at normal efficiency for the rest of the month.
Re:The headline is mis-leading! (Score:5, Informative)
s/major/mayor (Score:2, Informative)
The EU is not the government of Europe (Score:2, Informative)