Munich Votes for Linux Migration Plan 396
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."
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Re:The irony of slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
The US is a foreign country.
Babelfish sucks (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Isn't that a bit rash.... (Score:2, Funny)
I can install one of those for them, although that service fee is extra.
KFG
Re:Isn't that a bit rash.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The irony of slashdot (Score:1, Funny)
Re:German 101 (Score:4, Funny)
Dos homma scho gsogt, ge?
Re:Are They In? Or Out? (Score:2, Funny)
The German polical system in 1 minute:
I'm a slow reader, you insensitive clod.
CSU Website made by Freizeitprogrammierers! (Score:3, Funny)