Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully'

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 12, 2013 @06:42AM from the austin-should-follow-suit dept.

Qedward writes "Munich's switch to open source software has been successfully completed, with the vast majority of the public administration's users now running its own version of Linux, city officials said today. In one of the premier open source software deployments in Europe, the city migrated from Windows NT to LiMux, its own Linux distribution. LiMux incorporates a fully open source desktop infrastructure. The city also decided to use the Open Document Format (ODF) as a standard, instead of proprietary options. Ten years after the decision to switch, the LiMux project will now go into regular operation, the Munich City council said."

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Re:good for them! by BoRegardless · 2013-12-12 06:55 · Score: 0, Troll

This is "off topic" but illustrates why Warren Buffett once said he would not invest in Microsoft as he couldn't see a Loooong term profit stream from software.
Time will tell whether MS makes a successful switch to integrated devices.