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Why Migration Costs. Smoothing the way for software change.
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| If you rely on your computer for work, I highly recommend you keep your old
| trustworthy system handy while you learn the new software. If you try to
| accomplish working and learning at the same time, you will probably fail at
| both. If you are facing a deadline and need to get a job finished right now,
| just use the software tools you are used to. For most people, that sort of
| pressure will not encourage learning. It will only lead to resenting the
| differences. As you become more familiar with the new software, give yourself
| more opportunities to use it for real work.
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http://www.adriantry.com/why-migration-costs-smoothing-the-way-for-software-change/
Migrations are long-term investments.
Recent:
Red Hat Solutions Provide Reliability and Performance Gains for Munich Airport
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| Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions,
| today announced that Munich Airport, recognized for three consecutive years
| as Europe’s “Airport of the Year” by air transport research company Skytrax,
| has migrated a large portion of its UNIX servers and desktops to Red Hat
| Enterprise Linux. The Airport has since realized heightened performance, cost
| savings and reliable support.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080806005320&newsLang=en
Munich released template management software as Open Source
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| As can be read in this German article, the City of Munich just released their
| template management software for OpenOffice.org as Open Source under the
| European Union Public License (EUPL). It's great to see that government
| organizations start to embrace the open source development model!
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/munich_released_template_management_software
DE: Munich GNU/Linux desktop selects European Open Source licence
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| The LiMux developers are not changing licences of existing software, but they
| are releasing their own additional applications using the EUPL.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7648/469
City of Munich and German Federal Foreign Office start collaboration
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| According to this German article, the City of Munich and the German Federal
| Foreign Office have started to collaborate on the implementation of their
| open source and open standards strategies. I would not be surprised if other
| organizations decided to join the "alliance" as well. Anyway, very cool to
| see government organizations collaborate regarding the usage of open source
| and open standards.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/city_of_munich_and_german
Related:
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.
|
| [...]
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| "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."
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| [...]
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| 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
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