Munich's already-paid-for XP licenses are valid till 2014 (No big rush)

Munich's already-paid-for XP licenses are valid till 2014 (No big rush)

Post by Jeff » Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:46:02



....and the original Subject line is crap.

The Google Translation of press releases
shows that the Fire Department has been migrated:
http://www.yqcomputer.com/ ://www.muenchen.de/Rathaus/dir/limux/89256/index.html
:Munich, 01.28.2011 target of 5,000 jobs LiMux achieved
:
Munich ISN'T concerned with *fast*; they want to get it **right**.
A legacy of closed-source single-platform apps
isn't making that easy.
Munich's Linux migration is on schedule and on budget.
In the end, Munich's goal is
no apps for which they do not possess the source code.

....and there are apparently *some* whiney Germans
for whom change comes only with great difficulty
(see German Foreign Ministry)
--not the usual image Germans like to project.

....and if Munich DID want to do it fast,
they COULD (over one weekend)
go to 80,000 desktops running only FOSS
--the way Extremadura did in 2005.
http://www.yqcomputer.com/