R. Burris <rb@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>
> >
> > Maybe the people in Munich should read this guide and cut a few years off
> > of that Munich Migration clusterfuck.....
>
> >
> > In fact it is considered a complete mess.
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux#Timeline
>
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> LiMux is a project in Munich for migrating 14,000 personal computers and
> laptops of public employees to Free and Open Source Software/free
> software. With 16,000 users, LiMux is the largest[citation needed]
> deployment of Linux and OpenOffice.org in the public sector so far, and
> this symbolic value turned it into one of the world?s highest profile
> migration projects[citation needed].
>
> * March 2008 1,000 out of 14,000 have migrated to the Limux
> environment (7%), in addition 6000 workstations have OpenOffice.org 2.x
> installed on windows and more than 90% have Firefox 1.5.x and
> Thunderbird 1.5.x installed on Windows clients. [10]
>
> * The migration of 80 percent of the users is expected to be
> complete late-2008 to mid-2009[citation needed].
>
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>
>
>
> Go Limux! Go FOSS!
>
The munich project was enormous, and inevitably, came up against all
manner of lock-in related problems. Even so, it continues apace, and
will complete in due course.
What will be more interesting, though, will be the budget analysis post
the migration. At some point, it will be possible for cash to be spent
on next-generation mobility devices, network clients, and so on, as the
lock-in problems should be close to elimination.
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