____/ Linonut on Monday 19 November 2007 23:44 : \____
> http://wolfgang.lonien.de/?p=506
>
> The Berlin-based union of the German police issued a press release two
> days ago, where they said that their 'Poliks' system to handle
> reports isn't stable and reliable enough. Taking up a report into
> that system often would take between 30 and 90 minutes, which would be
> awkward. Also, the 73 million Euro system would crash far too often.
> This years' consolidated downtimes summed up to more than 50 hours.
>
> Well, they're getting a full "two-nines" uptime with that one. They
> should have scheduled pre-emptive reboots!
>
> The demand of the police union now is to drop the Microsoft-based
> software and to reconsider the usage of free and open source systems
> instead. The saved money could then be used to pay the officers their
> full christmas gratification.
This is excellent news and there's finally an article about that press release:
Polizei Berlin fordert Linux statt Windows
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| Der Berliner Landesverband der Deutschen Polizeigewerkschaft (DPolG) verlangt
| von der Polizeibehörde einen Umstieg von Windows auf offene Betriebssysteme
| wie Linux.
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http://www.computerwoche.de/it_strategien/linux/1848252/?ILC-RSSFEED&feed=1848252%20rssnews
This is a big milestone. Others will be watching them in Germany and then
follow their footsteps.
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