On 2008-11-04, Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:13:04 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> http://www.itexaminer.com/german-foreign-ministry-starts-open-source-blitzkreig.aspx
>
> Odd that it took them 4 years to do it.
>
> http://www.osor.eu/news/de-foreign-ministry-cost-of-open-source-desktop-maintenance-is-by-far-the-lowest
>
> "The Foreign Ministry in 2001 began migrating its back-end IT systems to
> Open Source in order to provide all embassies and consulates with Internet
> access and email. "Our strategy was to use as far as possible Open
> Standards and Open Source. Reduction of costs was the main reason for this
> decision." Upon completion of this project, the ministry decided in
> ***2004*** to also migrate the desktops."
So, you're of the opinion that everything that was in use before should
be dropped cold and implemented under a whole new system all at once?
No wonder you had so much trouble getting a simple firewall working.
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Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
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