The Woes of Munich's Linux Migration 314
mikrorechner writes "The H Online has a writeup of the problems encountered by LiMux (Wikipedia entry), one of the most prominent Linux migration projects in the world, trying to introduce free software into the highly heterogenous IT infrastructure of the City of Munich. Quoting: 'Florian Schiessl, deputy head of Munich's LiMux project for migrating the city's public administration to Linux, has, for the first time, explained why migrating the city's computing landscape to open source software has taken longer than originally planned.'" Here is Shiessl's blog, in which he details some of the transition problems.
They should switch to all Macs (Score:2, Funny)
Then their IT infrastructure will be homogenous.
Re:They should switch to all Macs (Score:1, Funny)
Newsflash there, AC. Not all mac users are gay. Sheesh, this is 2010, not 1995! Get over it. (I don't need to explain this is a joke, do I? Oops, I think I just did)
Move them all into the CLOUD (Score:3, Funny)
Re:We thought about doing this in Canada (Score:2, Funny)
How about LinuxEh?
The real reason its late (Score:2, Funny)
This task involves downloading 142909
Re:We thought about doing this in Canada (Score:5, Funny)
But we couldn't find a catchy pun or play on words to name the project, so we ditched it altogether.
Really? What about "Canux"? Isn't that already your nickname?
Re:Move them all into the CLOUD (Score:5, Funny)
1. Move them all into CLOUD computing
2. ???
3. Profit!
I believe #2 is "pray", unless you're a 'cloud host' and then it's "prey".
Re:They should switch to all Macs (Score:2, Funny)
Of course not. You don't turn gay immediately after buying a mac, it takes time.
Re:There is no free lunch (Score:5, Funny)
Poor IT chef.
But on that note, what an awesome IT department. They had a CHEF on staff? Fuck yeah!
Re:They should switch to all Macs (Score:5, Funny)
How much time? (Looks around furtively).
Re:They should switch to all Macs (Score:2, Funny)
Aw man, what do I tell my family? Especially my wife? I've been using macs pretty consistently for the last three years...am I slowly turning gay right now as we "speak"? Or is it more of a "you'll first slowly stop allowing your wife to pick out your clothes for you" followed by trimming your eye brows? What's next? A man purse? Oops, sorry, I meant a "European Shoulder bag".
Aw hell, I'm almost gay, aren't I?
Voice mode=Brando The horror! THE HORROR! /Brando
Re:how much did this all cost? (Score:3, Funny)
Hell yeah. Those haven't been bound to the /. Card for years.
Re:Bad title is bad. (Score:2, Funny)
kdawson doesn't actually exist, its a sockpuppet the regular editors use because they're ashamed of associating with their juvenile userbase of lintard wingnuts.
Re:There is no free lunch (Score:4, Funny)
When considering open source software, you should never, ever consider the costs of replacing an existing closed source system that works in every possible way with an inferior open source offering. You should consider instead all of the very fine software projects that are produced by the open source community. You should also remember that closed source systems are, by definition, thought and deed, inferior to any open source software, even when it isn't, don't be lazy, you stoopid noob, you have the source.
I apologize for this post about replacing closed source software with open source software in a discussion about the city of Munich replacing their closed source software with open source software. It is obviously off topic.
Re:There is no free lunch (Score:2, Funny)
Are you human? This post looks like some thing a markov chain barfed out. As far as I can tell, I wasn't even responding to a post made by you. Hell, this is the first comment you've posted in this story, unless of course you are a sockpuppeting whore.
Re:They should switch to all Macs (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's like the old saying... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's like the old saying... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:There is no free lunch (Score:2, Funny)
Of course. He left after joining the Super Adventure Club.