____/ Matt on Sunday 16 March 2008 19:09 : \____
> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>> Matt wrote:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> Matt on Sunday 16 March 2008 16:35 :
>>>>
>>>>>
http://www.muenchen.de/cms/prod1/mde/_de/rubriken/Rathaus/40_dir/limux/publ/first_year.pdf
>>>>>
>>
>> <SNIP>
>>
>>>>> Since they migrated 1000 workstations to Linux in one
>>>>> year, any simple fool can tell you it will take them 14
>>>>> years to migrate all 14,000 workstations.
>>>>
>>>> It's not quite the case. In the first year they would have
>>>> to look for or to port applications to Linux (that's what
>>>> they wrote somewhere). Also, Linux evolves all the time
>>>> (Wine, for example, improves), so the beginning is the slowest.
>>>
>>> You were not supposed to give a serious reply.
I thought you were sarcastic and spent a few extra seconds trying to find
evidence of this, without success, so I gave a serious reply. :-)
>> Wasn't it Singapore that migrated 20,000 Windows desktops to Linux and
>> OpenOffice in two years? That is 10,000 per year. At that rate it
>> would take Munich 15 months to migrate. :-)
>
> You may be thinking of the Tamil Nadu state in India, which migrated
> 30,000 desktops to Linux in a year.
>
>
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=elcot+linux&as_epq=tamil+nadu&as_oq=&as_eq=&ft=i&num=100&lr=lang_en&as_filetype=&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=off
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