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The Woes of Munich's Linux Migration

Posted by kdawson on from the eyes-of-the-world-are-upon-you dept.

mikrorechner writes "The H Online has a writeup of the problems encountered by LiMux (Wikipedia entry), one of the most prominent Linux migration projects in the world, trying to introduce free software into the highly heterogenous IT infrastructure of the City of Munich. Quoting: 'Florian Schiessl, deputy head of Munich's LiMux project for migrating the city's public administration to Linux, has, for the first time, explained why migrating the city's computing landscape to open source software has taken longer than originally planned.'" Here is Shiessl's blog, in which he details some of the transition problems.

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  1. Re:They should switch to all Macs by Em+Emalb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mods, not flamebait: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRecos7TcA0

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  2. Re:They should switch to all Macs by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It was a daring post without a net.

    Sadly, someone with mod points and no sense of humor cut the line.

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  3. Re:They should switch to all Macs by filesiteguy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    LOL!

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  4. Re:They should switch to all Macs by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Lol. Modded down but served it's purpose. The parent post was modded back up.

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