Münchner Oberbürgermeister lehnt ISO-Standardisierung von OOXML ab
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Muenchner-Oberbuergermeister-lehnt-ISO-Standardisierung-von-OOXML-ab--/meldung/105074
GL has the translation:
Mayor of Munich opposes OOXML being made a Standard (German)
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| Munich's mayor Christian Ude says in a letter to the Federal Minister for
| Economics and Technology, Michael Glos, he thinks there should be a
| clear "no" to the standardization of OOXML. The German Institute for
| Standardization (DIN) is currently evaluating how to vote in the ISO
| standardisation procedure. All the city needs, Ude indicates, is OpenDocument
| Format (ODF), already an ISO standard, and he believes competition is
| weakened by a competiting standards....
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http://www.groklaw.net/newsitems.php
Here is a world of diversity and choice (life beyond monoculture):
Free/Open-source Word Processors
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| A word processor, as you may all know, is a computer application that is used
| for the production (including composition, editing, formatting, and possibly
| printing) of any sort 0f printable material. It is considered as one of the
| earliest applications for the personal computer in office productivity.
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http://junauza.blogspot.com/2008/03/freeopen-source-word-processors.html
Munich's migration to GNU/Linux was successful and a lot of eyes use it as a
case study. Therefore, the Munchkins would lie through their teeth telling a
bogus story.
Related:
LiMux The Penguin: Deep into Munich?s Linux F/OSS migration
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| Munich's Linux migration has been a publicity frenzy, a
| software patent poster child, and the subject of a debate
| on the role of government in technology mandates. Now it's
| a real-life IT project, and the key to success is training,
| management, and replacing 170 non-Linux applications.
|
| [...]
|
| Now, after enormous criticism and a nearly complete halt,
| it's becoming a successful migration if for very important
| reasons: it's going well, quietly, and on plan.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2006/110606-munich-linux.html
Munich mayor: Full speed ahead to open source
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| Although numerous other European cities are closely
| following the LiMux project, Hoegner is hesitant to
| estimate how many will ever take the leap and deploy
| open source on a large scale. "Politicians don't know
| enough about open source and are worried about making
| a mistake," he said. "Believe me, my head would have
| been on the block if things had backfired here."
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/10/24/HNmunichopensource_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/10/24/HNmunichopensource_1.html
http://tinyurl.com/yck48j
Old:
Munich Linux scales desktop management
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| The City of Munich has developed impressive systems
| for rolling out and maintaining Linux desktops for
| large numbers of users, according to a British
| developer who had a close-up view of the system.
|
| [...]
|
| "Most of the work has been in configuration and
| systems... rather than custom packages on the clients
| themselves," McIntyre said in a blog post last week.
| "The vast majority of the packages installed come
| straight from the standard Debian archive."
|
| [...]
|
| LiMux developers have automated installation via
| Debian's FAI (fully automatic installation) system,
| according to McIntyre, with configuration information
| stored in LDAP and the database administration
| program GOsa as a front-end. "They've integrated
| these to enable some very clever management features
| so that all aspects of the city-wide system can be
| maintained from one central point," McIntyre said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=7161&pagtype=samechan
Munich Begins to Switch Windows Out for Linux
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| Since Tuesday, the first 100 of the city?s 14,000 PCs have been switched
| from Microsoft?s Windows operating system and Office applications to Linux
| and OpenOffice.
|
| [...]
|
| The configuration is based on Linux Distribution Debian GNU/Linux 3.1,
| the KDE 3.5 user interface and OpenOffice 2.
|
| [...]
|
| In September, the Norwegian city decided to focus on building an
| e-government portal first and later migrate its Windows-based systems to
| a Linux environment.
|
| Vienna is another big European city with ambitious plans to roll out Linux
| in its public administration.
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http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=25009
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