Munich Votes for Linux Migration Plan

JoScherl writes "The German news site Heise reports (German, Babelfish version) that the city council of Munich (3rd biggest city in Germany, 1.3 million inhabitants) has voted for the detailed concept of the LiMux - Linux for Munich (German, Babelfish version) project with votes from all parties except the CSU (Christlich Soziale Union, christion social union). With this decision the 13,000 Desktops and Servers of the city administration will be migrated to Linux. CSU, which has just won the European elections, said they won't support Linux since its Feierabendprogrammierer ('leisure-time coders') would destroy Munich's IT-landscape (Microsoft Germany and other big companies are located in and around Munich) and they also fear that the personnel would have problems with learning how to use OpenOffice and other migrated systems. The migration plan has the following steps: This year the Windows NT desktops get OpenOffice and Mozilla as their default office and browsing suite. In 2005 and 2006 the systems will be migrated to Linux, with some applications running on Windows application servers. In 2008 all applications should run native on Linux."

The irony of slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

Where people complain about losing jobs to foreigners, but cheer when an American company loses a contract. Way to guys - brilliant strategy.

in other news

[Anonymous Coward]

In other news, the CSU passed a law preventing youth groups from spending their leisure time collecting trash in order to prevent huge damage to munich's Trash Collection-landscape.

Re:The irony of slashdot

[martinX]

The US is a foreign country.

Babelfish sucks

[CastrTroy]

This is one time where it would have been a good idea to not RTFA.

Re:Isn't that a bit rash....

[kfg]

Don't knock it, there's probably still people out there looking for the "any key"

I can install one of those for them, although that service fee is extra.

KFG

Re:Isn't that a bit rash....

[molarmass192]

Same here, and to top it off, MS is one of our key competitors. It absolutely blows my mind some of the shit that comes out of the MSCEs in our IT group's mouths. Outrageous crap like replacing ***our own*** software internally, the same we sell to our customers, with MS software. I have no doubt it's the result of hiring the cheapest help available, which INconveniently are the point-and-click admins I so despise. I wouldn't trust any of those twits to admin an XBox, much less a server.

Re:The irony of slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, Microsoft is a 100% American company. It was founded by a group of American people and is run by the hand of good American people. MS doesn't even outsource jobs to the third world for cheap labors. Shame on you IBM. MS always plays fair in business, according to the standard of American corporation. A loss of Microsoft, a proud American company, is a loss of the United States. Let us pray for them and jerk off for foreigners.

Re:German 101

[kzadot]

Of course this is Bavaria we are talking about:
Dos homma scho gsogt, ge?

Re:Are They In? Or Out?

[Anonymous Coward]

The German polical system in 1 minute:

I'm a slow reader, you insensitive clod.

CSU Website made by Freizeitprogrammierers!

[Sweetshark]

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