UK Councils May Dump Windows For Linux

An anonymous reader writes "Local authorities in Newham and Nottingham are expected to migrate more than 10,000 desktop computers from Windows to GNU/Linux. ZDNet has the story. "If this is seen to work in Newham, it has the potential to be a significant project, changing the perceptions of other councils," said Tim Dawes, director of local government technology consultants Nineveh."

Comments

Re:I tend to agree

[dhfoo]

Are you sure English is your first language? Surfice to say that I garuntee that an email software doesn't contain a spellchecker.

Re:And for the Linux pessimists...

[rusty spoon]

Every api seems to have from 9 to 35 arguments. Nobody knows what they are for... its a cut and paste job from MSDN, yet again... and then we get on to business processes.

That's a lie. Just because you can't figure it out doesn't make it fact.

Now, be honest. You tried to write code in Windows but you got scared. "Mummy, theres confusing APIs with ONE parameter and I can't read the docs because I'm a coder-wannabe that thinks that every API has at least 9 parameters! Waaaaaah!!!!". You didn't want to know what was going on.

I suggest you sit down and STFU as you are obviously a clueless consultant who blames the API for their lack of ability. Perhaps you should move into marketing instead.

Re:OS is not the problem

[gregorio]

And just being curious: does MS provide tools to migrate from 97 to XP?

You don't need tools to do that, the parent poster is just plain wrong (or lying - if we are talking about an evangelizing zealot).

Re:OS is not the problem

[Idarubicin]

Just last night, I opened up two PowerPoint presentations (the second even had sound transitional effects that played) with absolutely no problem.

Actually, that's a bug. Any presentation software that isn't smart enough to strip out transition sound effects isn't worth using.

Aside: Anybody who uses the 'bounce' effect to bring text or objects on to a slide during a presentation is a waste of oxygen.