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Munich Delays Linux Conversion

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the slow-and-steady-wins-the-race dept.

It doesn't come easy writes "A short blurb over at The Register reports that Munich has decided to extend the pilot phase of their Linux migration project. One smart move mentioned: Many of their office workers will switch to OpenOffice on Windows first where it is comfortable, easing the transition."

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  1. waiting for the discount offers from microsoft to by TCaM · · Score: 3, Funny

    start rolling in?

  2. Somewhere in Redmond... by cpu_fusion · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somewhere in Redmond, Ballmer is abusing a chair.

    1. Re:Somewhere in Redmond... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Die
      Ballmer
      Die!

      That's German, of course, for "The Ballmer! The!"

    2. Re:Somewhere in Redmond... by linguae · · Score: 4, Funny

      Another scene today at Balmer's office in Redmond, Washington

      Adjunct: Good morning, Mr. Balmer

      Balmer: Good morning to you, sir. I'm smelling the nice aroma of freshly printed $100 bills coming to our empire today. Hopefully Windows Vista and MS Office 12 preorder sales are through the roof. I can hear geeks online shouting about the virtues of IE 7, Avalon, and C#. Do you have any good news to tell me today, sir?

      Adjunct: Well, I'm afraid another one of your customers made a switch. This time, it's Munich, and they're dumping MS Office.

      Balmer: WHAAAAAAT! They're switching? To what?

      Adjunct: Well....

      Balmer: Please don't tell me it's OpenOffice. Just tell me it's not OpenOffice.

      Adjunct: It is. They're switching to OpenOffice.

      Balmer then roars into a rage. Roaring and pounding his chest with his fists, he then picks up a chair and throws it at his table, splitting the chair into two.

      Balmer: "I'm going to f***ing bury Munich, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill OpenOffice."

      Balmer: "I'm going to kill every single OpenOffice developer that I find. Them dang developers. Developers. Developers, developers, developers, developers...."

      Balmer then runs around the entire Microsoft campus like an angry 800-pound gorilla and sings his "Developers" hit.

    3. Re:Somewhere in Redmond... by antdude · · Score: 3, Funny

      LOL Someone need to animated this or uhhh spoof it in real-life in video format. [grin]

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    4. Re:Somewhere in Redmond... by CapnGrunge · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ballmer changed genders? (The article "die" is feminine)

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  3. Re:Nothing to see here by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 2, Funny
    "We're going to change to Linux . . . wait for it . . . NOW!"

    According to the /. collective, I thought that's EXACTLY how it should go.

  4. It's no wonder the transition is taking time... by Rocketship+Underpant · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't imagine waiting for Gentoo to compile on 30,000 PCs. ;)

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  5. Yes, there's a delay by WhiteWolf666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This obviously means the death of Linux.

    After all, these opensource nuts are the only ones that experience delays, and its only because of the poor caliber of opensource programmers.

    Microsoft, of course, never experiences delays. If they had gone with a Microsoft Solution 3 years (projected started in 2001), they'd be running on Longhorm, ahem, I mean, Vista, today!

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  6. Am I the only one who read by commodoresloat · · Score: 2, Funny
    Munch Delays Linux Conversation?

    I had to blink for a second; I knew slashdot has some slow news days but that takes the cake; is it now news that someone had to stop talking about Linux long enough to eat some food?

  7. Look for a new Microsoft Ad by Hasai · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Munich's attempt to migrate to Open Source ends in total disaster! Billions wasted! Budget destroyed! Fires! Floods! Dogs and cats living together! MASS HYSTERIA!"

    ];)

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  8. Re:It's the fancy stuff. by ajs318 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It comes down to a matter of which you consider more l33t -- memorising enough keystrokes to use the default editor {thereby effectively letting the computer win}, or compiling an editor from source that actually shows you the keystrokes at the bottom of the screen?

    Of course, the opposite slant you could put on that would be that vi is more likely to be encountered on any random system you might come across than nano or pico, which means you have an advantage if you do know some of the keystrokes.

    And there is a school of thought that views obscure editors as a form of recreational self-abuse -- a sort of extreme sport in its own right. Hmm ..... I've just had a vision of a guy in body-hugging lycra, dangling precariously from a rope halfway up a mountain, ice-axe in one hand, laptop in the other, editing a kernel config file with ed, typing with his nose. Extreme editing! I may be on to something here .....

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