On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
'The German city of Munich, which received much popularity back in the day when it first ditched Microsoft's services in favor of open-source software, has now agreed to stop using Linux and switch back to Windows. If the decision is ratified by the full council in two weeks, Windows 10 will start rolling out across the city in 2020. From a report:
A coalition of Social Democrats and Conservatives on the committee voted for the Windows migration last week, Social Democrat councillor Anne Hubner told The Register. Munich rose to fame in the open-source world for deciding to use Linux and LibreOffice to make the city independent from the claws of Microsoft. But the plan was never fully realised -- mail servers, for instance, eventually wound up migrating to Microsoft Exchange -- and in February the city council formally voted to end Linux migration and go back to Microsoft. Hubner said the city has struggled with LiMux adoption. "Users were unhappy and software essential for the public sector is mostly only available for Windows," she said. She estimated about half of the 800 or so total programs needed don't run on Linux and "many others need a lot of
You don't need 800 programs. The council should be scaling back. But never going to get that with big govt :( It's a shame they can't just pay developers to work on features that they need, and share these features with others. Bad idea to use Microsoft Exchange. It's never going to run well on Linux, better to use/develop something on Linux. Cheers, William.