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Not that badNot that badPosted Jan 2, 2012 8:42 UTC (Mon) by debacle (subscriber, #7114)In reply to: Not that bad by cantsin Parent article: Extremadura dropping Linex
> Reinventing the wheel with in-house distributions was the major reason why Linux failed in German public administration.
To my knowledge here in Germany nobody "reinvented the wheel". A lot of errors have been made, but "reinvention" was not among the errors. "Failed" is not really correct, because e.g. in the foreign office the backlash towards MS was at least partly a political decision, when the political leadership changed from the Green party Fischer to "neo-liberal" Westerwelle. As for Munich: Isn't the change towards Linux still ongoing? Sorry, as a Prussian, I'm not well-informed about those Bavarians :~)
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Not that bad Posted Jan 7, 2012 21:46 UTC (Sat) by mbanck (subscriber, #9035) [Link]
> As for Munich: Isn't the change towards Linux still ongoing?
Yes, it is. And they seem to have accelerated the migration over the last 1-2 years, they migrated the 9000th desktop at the end of last year, out of around 12000 planned overall, see (in german) http://www.it-muenchen-blog.de/2011/12/munchen-hat-den-9-...
Disclaimer: I work for a company doing external support and development for the Limux project.
Michael
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