Rome Moving to Linux

fmstasi writes "La Repubblica, one of the main Italian newspapers, reports shortly about an interview (in Italian) with Mariella Gramaglia, Communication Councillor at the Municipality of Rome. They are planning to start soon trying Linux on the desktop: 'The first tests will concern e-mail, address book software and sharing systems', she says. The Councillor also says that motivations are political rather than economic: 'In the short term, the money saved on license will have to be spent on training'. It seems that there haven't been any reaction yet from Microsoft: 'At Microsoft they know how much we esteem them', she says; 'for example, they are sponsoring a campaign to spread the use of computers among the elderly. And we'll keep on cooperating with them on other projects'. Maybe Microsoft also appreciates that there is (yet) no project of migrating all the clients? The Municipality has about 9,500 clients, so an eventual migration project would be slightly smaller than the one taking place in Munich."

Comments

Next thing you know,

[sinergy]

A horse will be appointed governer!

Re:Next thing you know,

[spectre_240sx]

Nope, that was only the back half, not a full horse.

Insert standard joke

[tcomeau]

Don't expect to see this right away. After all, the Roman network wasn't built in a day.

(Sorry.)

Re:Insert standard joke

[Lancer]

the Roman network wasn't built in a day

Of course it wasn't! Have you ever had to work a CLI like this?

[caesar@router:/root]# ping -c II CXCII.CLVIII.CCLIV.CCLIV

PING CXCII.CLVIII.CCLIV.CCLIV (CXCII.CLVIII.CCLIV.CCLIV) from CXCII.CLVIII.CCLIV.XVII : LVI(LXXXIV) bytes of data.
LXIV bytes from CXCII.CLVIII.CCLIV.CCLIV: icmp_seq=I ttl=CCLIV time=I ms
LXIV bytes from CXCII.CLVIII.CCLIV.CCLIV: icmp_seq=II ttl=CCLIV time=I ms

--- CXCII.CLVIII.CCLIV.CCLIV ping statistics ---
II packets transmitted, II received, no loss, time MVIIms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = I/I/I/none ms

Rome Moving to Linux?

[Mr_Silver]

This is excellent news!

Hopefully we can shift London to where Rome was before and finally get some decent weather.

Rome GA uses Linux

[SphericalCrusher]

I live in Rome, Georgia, and I have to say that everyone here is switching to Linux nonetheless. Well, not everyone, but my large list of friends. =)

It's a fact that things that piss us off, we do not like to continue to use. And well, you know how Italians are... Sorry Microsoft; better them use a different product than yours, than them holding a Godfather-shootout in your HQ in Redmond.

Re:Rome GA uses Linux

[sik0fewl]

As much as I really like Linux and would like to see Rome using it, I think I'd still rather see a Mafia shootout in Redmond.

Can you.....

[millahtime]

"Those of Microsoft know the esteem that we have for they"

"The Common one of Rome ahead slowly towards Linux"

Can you move from M$ to Linux and still kiss M$ ass in the same article??? For the first time I really noticed it in an article.

Re:I can't wait for the day

[jstave]

A year or two after that maybe we'll start seeing stories about the stranglehold Linux has on the desktop.

So that means...

[UncleBiggims]

Roman Gnome in Rome... right?

Are you Corn Fed?

Well ofcourse

[PowerBert]

All roads lead to Linux!

Way to go Pope

[the.jedi]

Good to see they're giving up bad software for lent.

Tux's new motto

[Anonymous Coward]

Veni, Vidi, Vici

Hey!

[Cytlid]

Rome didn't switch to Linux in a day, ya know!

In other news...

[boatboy]

...Roman guards, under orders from Lineius Torvalds, seized Billus Gates as he camped outside the city. Formal charges are yet to be announced, but already crowds of Linux zealots are picketting the courthouse with signs that read "Penguify Him!"

uh oh

[WormholeFiend]

now we'll have Roman Catholic Zealots join forces with the Linux Zealots?

Unfortunately...

[Anonymous Coward]

...the Huns, Visigoths, and Vandals are running XP. It is said that some of these barbarians are running Windows For Workgroups, but that is just too horrible to believe.

To bad its not the City not the Church

[Anonymous Coward]

Then we really could call non Linux users heretics.

New Linux motto

[vensonOnSlashdot]

I came. I saw. I Konqueror-ed.

Re:Trying or Doing?

[Vihai]

No, italian mafia is Powered By Linux :)

> telnet www.mafia.it 80
Trying 212.78.66.135...
Connected to www.mafia.it.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:53:50 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux)
Last-Modified: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 15:41:36 GMT
ETag: "18094-5e-3e8b04b0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 94
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

Connection closed by foreign host.

my inner voice

[prescot6]

Did anybody else find themselves reading the article like they were practicing for a role on the Soprano's?

I didn't do it on purpose, but halfway through the article I thought to myself "Self, why are we reading with this ridiculous accent?" Crazy, huh?

Updated version of an old joke

[The I Shing]

A prominent cardinal enters the Pope's chambers with good news and bad news.

The good news, he tells the Pontiff, is that the Vatican has received an email from God himself!

The bad news is that they've traced the IP address to an ISP in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Re:I can't wait for the day

[AnonymousKev]

A year or two after that ...

Good. I'm glad you remembered that Rome wasn't ported in a day.

Re:I can't wait for the day

[JoeZeppy]

Then everyone on /. can start complaining about "paper LCSE's" with no experience being churned out by cut-rate tech schools.

Grizzled old MS vets will pine for the days when people really knew how to get inside the registry, and writing a good VBScript wasn't a foreign concept.

Re:Trying or Doing?

[Brian Knotts]

Connection closed by foreign host.

For some reason, that message seems more ominous in that context.

Et tu Roma

[__aaveti3199]

Said Steve Ballmer, reeling from being penguined in the back.

And to help the Italians communicate....

[catf00d]

... OpenOffice.org is adding mouse gestures.

Re:How long?

[1u3hr]

How long before the US government starts to notice how much foreign countries are saving with OSS?

Probably some time after they notice how much they're saving by using metric measures. I'm amazed that the US actually has a decimal currency -- with the conservative attitudes they have to these things I'd expect they'd still be using pieces of eight (though that's what "two bits" refers to).

Does this mean...

[Ignorant Aardvark]

All roads now lead to Linux??