Lower Saxony KDE Migration

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet reports on a recent German Linux migration by the tax authority in Lower Saxony which has made the decision to migrate an impressive 12,000 desktops to SuSE Linux using KDE. The project, which is now in process converting 300 desktops daily, moves systems from Solaris x86 version 8, which the organisation has been running since 2002. The migrations are reported as going well thus far. KDE's Kiosk desktop customisation, source code access and licensing costs were cited as key reasons for the decision. Congratulations to all involved, and best of luck going forward with this effort!"

Comments

cool but not that surprising

[p80]

For those that don't know about KDE, it was started by a German guy and most KDE users and devs live in Germany (though it's now popular in other countries too), also Suse was German and used KDE as its main desktop. So lots of people are pushing KDE there just like they did at Munich and now in Lower Saxony.
I will be surprised when some country in Asia or America that is not known for its KDE community decides to switch to KDE.
That being said, it's of course great that did it in Germany.

Re:This part of story brings tears to my eyes...

[Kjella]

"Freely accessible sources, no license costs as well as optimum support of current hardware."

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but I realized that sentence could be read in two ways:

optimum support for the hardware we're currently using
optimum support for hardware in mainstream use

Since he's focused on his own project, I would say a conservative opinion is that they happen to have a well supported standard configuration. That's great but not really anything exceptional.