Sunday, 15. May 2016
Topic: Linux - on May 15, 2016 at 9:51:00 AM CEST
After three years of Linux, Munich reveals draft of crunch report that could decide its open source future
A German city that undertook one of the world's largest shifts from Windows to Linux is struggling with buggy and outdated software.
Munich city council spent years migrating more than 15,000 staff to LiMux, a custom-version of Ubuntu, and other open-source software - a move the city said had saved it more than €10m ($11m). Microsoft's attempts to avoid such a high-profile shift by Germany's third-largest city saw the then CEO Steve Ballmer fly to Munich in 2003 to meet with the mayor at the time.
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