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More Linux Activity in German Government

Posted by timothy on from the first-a-trickle dept.

__past__ writes "The decision of the bavarian capital city Munich to switch their desktop systems to Linux has caused a lot of discussion, and has been widely regarded as an important step for Linux on the desktop. And even if Microsoft tried hard to make their offerings more attractive since, including a special license contract that could save the public sector 'a lot of money' according to interior minister Otto Schily, it looks as if Munich was only the beginning."

"9 more cities in Rheinland-Pfalz, including the capital Mainz, are seriously considering to replace most, if not all of their Microsoft software with Linux after their current contracts expire in early 2004, noting that there are many other cities in a similar situation, and with similar plans.

Meanwhile, the police in Niedersachsen (german) is busy rolling out RedHat Linux on 11,620 desktops and 120 servers, running both standard Linux software and a custom information system called "Nivadis" based on WebLogic and Oracle running on Itanium servers, citing savings of about EUR 20 Mio compared with a Windows-based solution.

In a less desktop-related project, the state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern started a project with SuSE, IBM and others porting a mission-critical system called ProFiskal from Reliant Unix to Linux on zSeries, again citing cost as the primary reason, but also noting the benefits of using open standards for both software developers and users."

8 of 367 comments (clear)

  1. Will.. by CausticWindow · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    World War III be a war between the good (Linux) and the bad (Microsoft)?

    Things are shaping up.

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  2. Re:goatse by lanswitch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    what kind of plugin do i need to run linux on that?

  3. Open source browsers stopped working by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Has anyone experienced the same??? After running Windows Update BOTH of my open source browsers, Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird stopped functioning! When I try to launch the program, I get the hourglass pointer for a while and then nothing... WEIRD, REALLY WEIRD! Did Microsoft update screw them up somehow? It really looks like it. Internet Explorer is the only browser that works on my computer now.

  4. Why is anyone looking @ Slashdot? by Excen · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's 2:30 in the bloody morning on a Sunday! Why is anyone sitting here refreshing Slashdot? And of all topics, German adoption of Linux. The nature of this topic only proves that all /.ers are Linux nuts. Mod me -5:Troll if you wish, but you know I'm right.

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    1. Re:Why is anyone looking @ Slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      We're all drunk and beating to anime tentacle-rape porn we just downloaded with GiFT.

    2. Re:Why is anyone looking @ Slashdot? by Omicron32 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      1) Why are you here refreshing Slashdot at 2.30 in the morning. 2) There are other countries besides your own. Guess what, we all live in different timezones. Just proves that Americans assume the world revolves around them.

  5. My liver by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    My right side hurts just about where my liver is.

    My stool is mostly yellow liquid.

    Yet, I can't stop drinking.

  6. Re:Metric and Imperial by tulare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Which reminds me - I'd promised myself to lose two stone this year, and I've only made it halfway =[

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