Comment Popularity effects & user perception (Score 1) 579
This is harder to make work than many think.
I work for a local government organisation in UK, smaller than Munich, and we went part way, adopting Star Office rather than MS Office from 2005. Small document-formatting problems led to widespread exemptions from the policy: many users went back to MS Office, wiping out any cost savings. The initiative was eventually dropped.
I had mixed feelings about this: good to try an alternative to Microsoft but in practice I go to work to get my job done, not participate in a software values war.
Alain Williams above tells us what would be good to see but I donÃ(TM)t feel itÃ(TM)s realistic: by now most people are not expecting next year to be the year of widespread Linux on the desktop.