[nzlug] Munich Begins to Switch Windows Out for Linux

[Bruce Clement]

I saw this on the web and thought list subscribers might find it interesting.

"Munich has begun its migration to Linux on the desktop, a year later than
planned and nearly three years since the city announced its move to open
source software.

"'There have been some delays along the way but we’re now moving steadily
ahead,' Florian Schiessl, manager of the Limux project for the city of
Munich, said Thursday by telephone.

"Since Tuesday, the first 100 of the city’s 14,000 PCs have been switched
from Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Office applications to Linux
and OpenOffice.

"'Today, we’re still working in both the Windows and Linux worlds,'
Schiessl said. 'But over the next two years, the Linux world will get
bigger, while the Windows world will get smaller.'"

Rest of article at http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=25009

Bruce