Re: Munich Germany Adoption of Linux Tanks.................

In article <_R1pg.113$V14.77@fe09.lga>, Susan <no.online.email@yea.net>
wrote:

> John Bailo wrote:
> > http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/74868
>
> "The City of Munich's LiMux project center is rejecting charges by the
> Senate administration of Berlin that the migration to free software has
> gotten stuck before it ever got going. As Project director Peter Hofmann
> told heise online, "Open Source software at the workplace is a reality in
> Munich." At the end of May, his department presented the future basis client
> to the public at in information day. At present, the pilot phase is focusing
> on a software suite. The approximately 100 pilot users include Mayor
> Christian Ude and his deputy Christine Strobl. Hofmann added that "most
> users" in the city's administration use individual Open Source programs to
> surf the net, write e-mails, or edit graphics, for example, "on the
> Microsoft Windows operating system, which remains dominant."
>
> "on the Microsoft Windows operating system, which remains dominant."
>
> Message-ID: Xt-cnWBUrr37d0ijXTWcqQ@comcast.com
>
> "Microsoft's offer of about 27.3 million euros ($32.3 million) had been
> almost three million euros below that of the Linux competitor, but the city
> had still chosen Linux for strategic reasons."
>
> "strategic reasons"
>
> LMAO
>
> 3½ years 100 users 27.3 million Euros
>
> Seeing the Munich "migration" fail miserably: priceless
>
>
> Now this is REAL FUNNY!!
>
> Funny how the Linux Nutsacks seem to be avoiding this little gem..........

I hope Munich's decision doesn't fuck-up the beer!

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and women we choose to admire.

in 614533 20060630 160739 Susan <no.online.email@yea.net> wrote:

>
>It hurts when you post a supposedly positive Linux article and just a
>little investigating shows that it is indeed more of a clusterfsck doesn't
>it.
>
>I'll bet you wish you never posted that one.
>Talk about backfiring!
>
>3 1/2 years, 100 users at a cost of 27.3 million Euros.
>
>Now that's what I call a great success for LIEnux!!!
>
>So great in fact, that I took the liberty to send the article to Microsoft.
>
>I'll bet they can't wait to use it in their "Get The Facts" campaign...
>
>Thanks for posting it Roy, because I never would have seen it otherwise.

Why does this concern you? Do you work for M$ or have other financial interest?
If neither then I find your attitude perverse.

Bob Martin wrote:

> in 614533 20060630 160739 Susan <no.online.email@yea.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>It hurts when you post a supposedly positive Linux article and just a
>>little investigating shows that it is indeed more of a clusterfsck doesn't
>>it.
>>
>>I'll bet you wish you never posted that one.
>>Talk about backfiring!
>>
>>3 1/2 years, 100 users at a cost of 27.3 million Euros.
>>
>>Now that's what I call a great success for LIEnux!!!
>>
>>So great in fact, that I took the liberty to send the article to
>>Microsoft.
>>
>>I'll bet they can't wait to use it in their "Get The Facts" campaign...
>>
>>Thanks for posting it Roy, because I never would have seen it otherwise.
>
> Why does this concern you? Do you work for M$ or have other financial
> interest? If neither then I find your attitude perverse.

"Susan" is flatfish
Since MS recently shed just another of the "great things to come with
vista", the wintrolls are in a posting frenzy
--
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them
to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

In comp.os.linux.misc Peter K?hlmann <peter.koehlmann@t-online.de>:
> Bob Martin wrote:

>> in 614533 20060630 160739 Susan <no.online.email@yea.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>It hurts when you post a supposedly positive Linux article and just a
>>>little investigating shows that it is indeed more of a clusterfsck doesn't
>>>it.
>>>
>>>I'll bet you wish you never posted that one.
>>>Talk about backfiring!
>>>
>>>3 1/2 years, 100 users at a cost of 27.3 million Euros.
>>>
>>>Now that's what I call a great success for LIEnux!!!
>>>
>>>So great in fact, that I took the liberty to send the article to
>>>Microsoft.
>>>
>>>I'll bet they can't wait to use it in their "Get The Facts" campaign...
>>>
>>>Thanks for posting it Roy, because I never would have seen it otherwise.
>>
>> Why does this concern you? Do you work for M$ or have other financial
>> interest? If neither then I find your attitude perverse.

> "Susan" is flatfish
> Since MS recently shed just another of the "great things to come with
> vista", the wintrolls are in a posting frenzy

Seems like. However Munich is just one pilot in a long run
project.


Initial costs are trivial enough once all other community
administrations in Germany populated with about 80 million people
start migrating to Linux, followed by the other about 400
million EU habitants (including new members in 2007).

Iirc there are a few other small community administrations that
already switch to Linux, but they just made a fraction of
publicity Munich is getting. Who knows Schwaebisch-Hall or how it
is called?

Seems as if "world domination" continues as planned. ;-)

Utilizing LTSP (http://www.ltsp.org) would cut down TCO even much
more. Strange that none seemed to have the idea until now?

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