Gartner: Patent Issues Aren't The Only Cause For Munich's Linux Delay
News Governments considering a migration to open-source software should watch what Munich and Vienna are doing. In addition, a recent study by the city of Vienna was less favourable to migration. On 4 August 2004, the City of Munich decided to postpone...
[August 12, 2004, 10:10]
Munich Linux Migration Slips To 2006
News In July, the Austrian city of Vienna kicked off its migration to open source software on the desktop and the Norwegian city of Bergen also plans to migrate. The City of Munich will not start its migration to Linux on the desktop until 2006, a year...
[September 5, 2005, 17:15]
Vienna To Softly Embrace Linux
News The Austrian capital city of Vienna's local government is due to start migrating its desktop PCs to open source software in the second quarter of this year. Vienna is not the only large European city that is migrating to Linux on the desktop.
[January 25, 2005, 12:35]
Amsterdam To Evaluate Open Source
News Austria's capital city, Vienna, has embarked on an ambitious Red Hat desktop rollout. And Munich has transferred 100 users to the Debian configuration. The city of Amsterdam has become the latest high-profile public sector organisation to evaluate...
[January 2, 2007, 15:20]
German Universities Embrace Linux
News The city governments of Vienna and Munich are also developing their Linux platforms. The city of Amsterdam, along with nine other cities in the Netherlands, has embarked on a major Linux-adoption trial.
[August 29, 2007, 16:25]
French Education Authorities Migrate To Linux
News The city governments of Vienna and Munich are also developing their Linux platforms, and the Swedish Armed Forces have followed suit. However, Birmingham City Council axed its Linux rollout last year, because it found that its Microsoft-based...
[September 5, 2007, 16:58]
US State Embraces Open Standards
News The City of Munich is moving 14,000 desktops to Debian Linux, and Vienna is in the process of migrating some of its desktop users from Windows software. The state of Massachusetts plans to use software based on open standards from the beginning of...
[September 1, 2005, 10:40]
Munich Picks Its Linux Distro
News The German Foreign Office and the Office for IT Security, as well as the City of Vienna, have also opted for the free Linux distribution. The City of Munich has chosen to migrate its 14,000 desktops to a free Linux distribution, rather than a...
[April 15, 2005, 15:45]
Munich Stalls Linux Migration
News Vienna has also been eyeing up a switch but has recently decided to offer a choice of either open source or Windows to half its users from next year, with a review to follow in 2006. The city of Munich's 14,000-desktop switch from Windows to Linux...
[August 5, 2004, 15:05]
