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Munich's Move To Linux Exceeds Target

Posted by timothy on from the unterpromise-ueberdeliver dept.

jrepin writes "In May 2003, Munich's city council resolved to migrate municipal workstations from Windows to Linux and open source. Munich's LiMux project has announced that it has exceeded its annual target for migrating the city's PCs to its LiMux client. To date in 2011, the project has migrated 9,000 systems; it had originally planned to migrate 8,500 of the 12,000-15,000 PC workstations used by city officials in Munich."

8 of 235 comments (clear)

  1. Re:steve balmer by deniable · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well done, Steve. Should we send him a gift basket?

  2. Re:steve balmer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Prior to 2003 they were perfectly happy with using windows.
    After Balmer's trip.. Wholly shit we have to switch to ANYTHING ELSE ASAP.
    Photo from said trip
    http://www.models.hr/models/images/stories/slike/najbogatiji/steve_ballmer.jpg

  3. Re:steve balmer by suprem1ty · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard several Munich city officials were later admitted to hospital with chair-related injuries

  4. Re:steve balmer by antifoidulus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was expecting the parent to be goatse, but no, it's actually Ballmer, which is probably more offending to the eye than goatse.

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  5. Re:steve balmer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's still Gotse, but a different angle

  6. Re:steve balmer by The+Creator · · Score: 4, Funny

    He's looks all happy because Bobba Fett brought him Han Solo.

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  7. Re:User satisfaction level . . . ? by kikito · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Sounds like they don't know how to run a Windows environment.."

    Turn it off and on again. That's how windows is run.

  8. Re:what an incredibly expensive way to not sav emo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    And 9000 Windows machines don't need no support? You should at least have posted a link to MS's "research" on how Linux TCO is HUEG and everyone should buy Windows instead.