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German Foreign Ministry Migrates Desktops To OSS

Posted by Soulskill on from the saving-some-geld dept.

ruphus13 writes "Here's another example of 'German Engineering' — The Foreign Ministry in Germany is migrating all of its 11,000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other open source applications. According to the article, 'this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries. "The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we spend only one thousand euro per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average spend more than 3000 euro per desktop per year ... Open Source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations," says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry ... "The embassies in Japan and Korea have completely switched over, the embassy in Madrid has been exclusively using GNU/Linux since October last year", Schuster added, calling the migration a success.' The Guardian has additional coverage of the move."

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  1. German Engineering... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anyone else think Brooke Shields should stop suggesting people are having babies for German engineering? Doesn't that seem just... wrong?

  2. This is why they did it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OSS is a secret project of the ITALIAN-German axis to spread their nefarious ices into our homes and base ball parks. Stop the ITALIAN menace before all our freedoms are gone! Everyone listen to me before it is too late! You know that guy on Snelling street with the loud dog? Yeah, I think he is an ITALIAN SPY. GODDAMNIT!

  3. MINIX anyone? TCP/IP Anyone?? Linux thieves too... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    QUESTION: Where did Linux (Linus Torvalds, specifically here) get its original code, & foundations from, originally?

    ANSWER: MINIX!

    Please - Quit trying to play Linux off as some 'saintly OS', when it's NO BETTER than any other out there (they all steal code, if not just ideas alone, from others, period - get used to it!)