Munich Reverses Course, May Ditch Linux For Microsoft

alphadogg (971356) writes with news that the transition from Windows to GNU/Linux in Munich may be in danger The German city of Munich, long one of the open-source community's poster children for the institutional adoption of Linux, is close to performing a major about-face and returning to Microsoft products. Munich's deputy mayor, Josef Schmid, told the Süddeutsche Zeitung that user complaints had prompted a reconsideration (Google translation to English) of the city's end-user software, which has been progressively converted from Microsoft to a custom Linux distribution — "LiMux" — in a process that dates back to 2003.

Comments

Surprise?

[Frosty Piss]

Well, yes, of course. When Microsoft throws that much software license cuts and maybe a few junkets for the mucky-mucks in exotic places for âoeconferencesâ, well, this is the way it goes.

Is there anyone who really thought it would go any other way?

Re: Surprise?

[jedidiah]

...none of which is remotely relevant in an enterprise corporate environment where you DON'T WANT your end users their PCs or the rest of the network and where even Windows setup is managed by specialists from another department.

When our department moved. there was a lot of fun getting the network printer to work with people's WinDOS desktops. An entire department full of programmers had problems getting a mundane Dell printer to work with their Win7 desktops.

Most of them had to be rescued by IT.