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German State Plans To Migrate 13,000 Workstations From Linux to Windows (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet:
The German state of Lower Saxony is set to follow Munich in migrating thousands of official computers away from Linux to Microsoft's Windows. As initially reported by Heise, the state's tax authority has 13,000 workstations running OpenSuse -- which it adopted in 2006 in a well-received migration from Solaris -- that it now wants to migrate to a "current version" of Windows, presumably Windows 10.
The authority reasons that many of its field workers and telephone support services already use Windows, so standardisation makes sense. An upgrade of some kind would in any case be necessary soon, as the PCs are running OpenSuse versions 12.2 and 13.2, neither of which is supported anymore.
According to the Lower Saxony's draft budget, €5.9m is set aside for the migration in the coming year, with a further €7m annually over the following years; it's not yet clear how many years the migration would take... Munich's shift away from LiMux -- the city's own Ubuntu-based distribution -- is expected to cost more than €50m overall, involving the deployment of around 29,000 Windows-based computers.
The authority reasons that many of its field workers and telephone support services already use Windows, so standardisation makes sense. An upgrade of some kind would in any case be necessary soon, as the PCs are running OpenSuse versions 12.2 and 13.2, neither of which is supported anymore.
According to the Lower Saxony's draft budget, €5.9m is set aside for the migration in the coming year, with a further €7m annually over the following years; it's not yet clear how many years the migration would take... Munich's shift away from LiMux -- the city's own Ubuntu-based distribution -- is expected to cost more than €50m overall, involving the deployment of around 29,000 Windows-based computers.
If EU is not a friend anymore according to Trump, why does the EU allow USA software in their administration?
After dealing with German bureaucracy for the past eight years I can assure you, the German government's list of interests doesn't include "Get shit done".
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No, he's right. Desktop Linux sucks dick. And I say that as someone who has been running it as my main OS for well over a decade. In fact, desktop Linux today is in a worse state than it was when I started.
The overwhelming majority of everyone chooses X. Germany now also chooses X. You really think bribery and corruption are the most likely reasons?
Who benefits by replacing inherently secure Linux with malware magnet Windows? Russia does most certainly. And just need to coopt as few as one official, a few weeks of over-the-paunch sex should do it, easier than winning at Russian roulette.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
I work in this industry and there is laws here that state that we have to have specific tests and development for this kind of software and the suppliers simply doesn't want to support Linux or any other platform than Windows. Most doesn't even support OSX. The only alternative to comply with the laws and use Linux would be a internally developed system. Security isn't something that the laws in this field take into account so Windows problems there doesn't count unfortunately.
Why? MS already bailed on phones, unfortunately. They never made money on them, apparently. People still need real computers and likely will for a long, long time. Android doesn't compete with Windows in any way.
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The people Germany is taking in are not "refugees", they are adventurers taking advantage of a situation. The "Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951" does not apply to adventurers. Unless you count as "refugees" guys (and they are mostly young men of fighting age) who are getting away from GFs they have got pregnant, escaping debts they owe, running from petty crimes catching up with them, thinking they can earn more money, or any of he the miriad of other reasons that drives them.