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Story: Criticism mounts over Birmingham's Linux project

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Issues that have not been explored

Birmingham City Council didn't migrate 'back' to Windows XP, because they were never on Windows XP in the first place. They used Sun Solaris on Sun's Sunray thin clients in the libraries.

The publishing of the independent market research report undertaken during the trials would show this. It would also show that the Birmingham public were delighted with the GNU/Linux desktops in the public trial.

The failure of this project has got nothing to do with whether GNU/Linux was suitable for the libraries or not. In fact the trial proved it was.

The root of the problem was that BCC project managers and technicians were ineffective and unwilling to seek professional advice during the deployment phase.

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