Migrating apps is challenge for Munich Linux project
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
The migration of around 300 business applications from Windows to Linux is one of the biggest challenges facing the city of Munich, which has embarked on one of Europe's largest open-source projects in the public sector.
"We knew from the start that migrating our many city administration-specific applications would not be easy," said Florian Schiessl, a manager in the city's Linux-migration project, called LiMux. "And it isn't, frankly." Schiessl declined to say how many applications have been migrated to date. He said that only one-third of the city's suppliers say they "have a migration path, and that another one-third claim they will find a migration path but that suppliers of the remaining one-third have remained mum on the topic so far.