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UNIX to Linux Migration: An Introduction
White Papers The paper should serve as a general reference guide during a typical migration and provide information on additional Red Hat resources that will assist with the overall strategy and implementation. This paper is intended to provide a discussion of...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Munich's Linux migration 'on track'
Blog Munich's much-scrutinised migration to Linux is going well, according to the city's mayor. The migration is also on track to come in on budget, at 35 million Euros. Christine Strobel told Heise Online that eighty percent of desktops will have moved...
[October 31, 2006, 7:52]
The Weather Channel: Measuring Business Value From Server Migration to Linux and a Tiered-Storage Model
White Papers VERITAS Storage Foundation for Linux software helped facilitate the migration to this new server platform and operating system. In order to achieve these objectives, The Weather Channel initiated a project in 2001 to migrate applications and...
[August 29, 2009, 1:23]
German city reveals Linux migration tactics
News On Wednesday, Horst Bräuner, the civil servant responsible for implementing the migration, revealed the tactics used to get the council workers of Schwäbisch Hall onside. Once the migration was completed, though, there were concerns that the open...
[February 11, 2004, 12:00]
German Linux migration not a taxing decision
News The migration process has "entered its peak phase", with 300 systems ported every day, according to Eva Brucherseifer, president of the KDE community in Germany, and managing director of basysKom, the consultancy which configured the desktop.
[June 9, 2006, 11:50]
Munich stalls Linux migration
Talkback Its annoying to see such business and admin type of issues pausing Munich's Linux migration as these have nothing to do with Linux yet will probably help deter others from following suit and saving communities a lot of money which could be better...
[August 6, 2004, 14:41]
Munich Linux migration slips to 2006
News The City of Munich will not start its migration to Linux on the desktop until 2006, a year later than planned and three years since it decided to migrate to Linux. The migration of 14,000 desktops from Windows NT 4.0 to Linux and Microsoft Office...
[September 5, 2005, 17:15]
Munich stalls Linux migration
News Until they've been sorted, the migration is on hold. Before embarking on the migration, Munich carried out a year-long feasibility study with help from Novell-parented SuSE and IBM. The city of Munich's 14,000-desktop switch from Windows to Linux...
[August 5, 2004, 15:05]
Munich Linux migration delayed by 'PR stunt'
News Software patent campaigner Florian Mueller revealed this week that the City of Munich's decision to stall its Linux migration, was the result of a PR stunt by anti-patent campaigners. Mueller, along with a few others, came up with the idea of the...
[March 29, 2006, 11:05]
German railway on track with Linux migration
News The migration to the open-source operating system is due to be completed in 2006 or 2007. This migration is due to be completed at the end of the year as its z/OS licence is due to run out on 1 January, 2005.
[November 25, 2004, 13:15]
Vienna starts desktop Linux migration
News The Austrian capital city of Vienna kicked off its soft migration to open source software on the desktop on Tuesday. For more details on this migration click here. Vienna town councillor Rudi Schicker presented the city's bespoke Linux distribution...
[July 5, 2005, 18:00]
German Linux migration not a taxing decision
Talkback Excellent news. I hope that this encourages even more governments to switch to open source and free software. It is a great way to have quality software and save a lot od taxpayers money.
[June 9, 2006, 23:16]
German Linux migration not a taxing decision
Talkback If they had tried Solaris 10 they'd not have gone for Linux. Perhaps they didn't know Solaris is Open Source now.
[June 10, 2006, 13:07]
German Linux migration not a taxing decision
Talkback Also it it not about Linux or Solaris. It is not about Sun beeing open source or not it is about where the open source community is concentrated. And that is not Solaris. It is about open source, open standards about the lack of lock-in to any...
[June 11, 2006, 7:47]
Munich Linux migration slips to 2006
Talkback As a long time, desktop Linux user I'm confident that moving to Linux isn't hard. Of course Microsoft are going to revel in this news. Look how hard it is for Munich to stop using our software they will claim, forgetting of course that that's...
[September 5, 2005, 23:55]
Munich Linux migration slips to 2006
Talkback I think the chief problem with software migration is that every bum who can click a mouse thinks they're a computer expert and when you put a different system in front of them they're scared. Let's forget about all the other benefits of using a...
[September 6, 2005, 12:20]
German Linux migration not a taxing decision
Talkback Germany is leading the way forward for Governments, Public Sector and all types of Business around the world in their migration to Open Source. Novell and the SuSE team have worked wonders into their releases of Linux and the other projects that...
[June 9, 2006, 16:21]
Munich stalls Linux migration
Talkback 'a choice of either open source or Windows to half its users .an administrators dream, not
[August 5, 2004, 21:53]
Bristol pushes Linux migration
News Bristol's Wind/U for Linux product, which began shipping Tuesday, enables developers to compile Microsoft Win32 API and Microsoft Foundation Class source code directly on Linux, and create native, desktop and server-based Linux applications...
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