Munich Linux migration is in a gutter
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Every couple of months, we get ... ah ... news out of Munich, Germany, regarding its ever-delayed migration from Windows desktops to Linux-based PCs. This month, we heard more of the same: The city is now delaying the migration to 2006, a year later than the last plan and a full 3 years after it announced, with some fanfare, that it was switching 14,000 desktops to Linux. But this eventual migration is even slower than it sounds. The first desktops to be switched will number only 250, and that migration won't happen until mid-2006 at the earliest. And the migration will move slowly, if it ever starts at all, with users first moving to OpenOffice.org on Windows desktops. It isn't too late to give it a rest, Munich. OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox run just fine on Windows, and you don't have to reinstall anything. Just a thought.