[Linuxtrent] Re: Munich, Germany realizes that deploying Linux was a disaster, going back to Windows

  • From: Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: linuxtrent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 11:10:14 +0200

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:18:57AM +0200, Luca Manganelli wrote:
> "[...] By 2011, Germany was supposedly running LiMux on more than 9000 
> machines.
> 
> Issues arose when the Linux OS users tried to work with those outside
> the city and they were unable to share files easily with those on
> other applications. More so, the idea is generally that Linux setups
> are cheaper than a Microsoft solution as you do not have to pay
> licensing fees but what Munich experienced is that Linux was much more
> expensive. Why is it more expensive? That's because the city had to
> hire programmers to build out functionality that they needed and then
> had to pay the staff to maintain the software.
> 
> The city is now in the process of jumping back to a Microsoft solution
> and is now converting those 9000+ machines back to Windows. [...]"
> 
> http://www.neowin.net/news/munich-germany-realizes-that-deploying-linux-was-a-disaster-going-back-to-windows
> 
> Le motivazioni mi sembrano un po' stupide, comunque. Forse hanno
> solamente fatto il passo più lungo della propria gamba.

Strano.... non è il primo aprile... che abbiano Windows coll'orologio
"andato"?

Dai dai prima di postare controlla che non sia una bufala...

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Marco Ciampa

"L'utopia sta all'orizzonte. Mi avvicino  di due passi, lei si allontana
di due  passi. Faccio dieci  passi e  l'orizzonte si allontana  di dieci
passi.  Per quanto cammini, non la raggiungerò  mai. A cosa serve
l'utopia? A questo: serve a camminare."              Eduardo Galeano

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