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Is it me or does Germany switches (back?) to open-source every few years? I remember being excited they were switching to Linux (or was it Munich?) years ago
by pluc 4y ago
Is it me or does Germany switches (back?) to open-source every few years? I remember being excited they were switching to Linux (or was it Munich?) years ago
- hdjjhhvvhga 4y agoYou are more or less. LiMux started in 2004. Last two points on its long timeline[0]: * November 2017 - The city council decided that LiMux will be replaced by a Windows-based infrastructure by the end of 2020. The costs for the migration are estimated to be around 90 million Euros. * May 2020 - Newly elected politicians in Munich take a U-turn and implement a plan to go back to the original plan of migrating to LiMux. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
- BlueTemplar 4y agoYou forgot the quite important September 2016 - Microsoft moves its German headquarters to Munich
- oytis 4y agoLast time I've heard about it, it ended with users (i.e. bureaucrats) complaining about missing features and/or differences between MS and the open source alternative and forcing switching back to MS
- FlorianRappl 4y agoIt was Munich - and it only happened once. I shared the excitement, but as so often it was only executed half-way. In essence, instead of recreating processes from the ground up to fit the new reality, they tried to make everything as beforehand. Unsurprisingly, that was a huge uphill battle - in the end they spend more money than beforehand and had a lot of trouble in maintenance etc. (Regarding the 2020 public announcement; nothing has happened since then IIRC so I would not count that in - just talk no actions)