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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.

3 of 314 comments (clear)

  1. Re:They should switch to all Macs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    only gays can tolerate that shiny plastic gleem that reeks of limp wristed asthetics.

  2. Re:They should switch to all Macs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeth they would

  3. Re:Why so prominent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh cool poor niggers and spics are more prominent than Aryans. Pfft ok.