Re: Austrians give the gate to Linux

[Moshe Goldfarb.]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 12:52:10 -0400, amicus_curious wrote:

> http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/282671/
>
> Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
>
> "In a setback for the City of Vienna's three-year-old open-source migration
> programme, city authorities decided on Wednesday to scrap most of the
> systems that have so far adopted the city's custom-built Linux distribution,
> instead approving an ?8m migration to Windows Vista.
>
> The Vienna district council on Wednesday formally approved a budget of ?8m
> (£6.3m) for migrating Windows 2000 systems to Vista and Office 2007,
> according to a report from Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), the Austrian
> national public service broadcaster.
>
> The Vista migration will include 720 kindergarten systems that had been
> migrated to Wienux, a Debian-based Linux distribution developed internally
> by the city's IT body."
>
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39429910,00.htm?r=4

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Sounds like they were using the "Munich Method" of Linux migration.

It's classic.

Linux looks great until you try to implement it and then all the problems
and instabilities of the Linux applications become apparent.

Linux is like getting a phone call informing you that you have won an all
expense paid cruise trip and then when the tickets arrive you realize that
you have been booked on the Lusitania.


--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

 

[Rick]

On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:56:12 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 12:52:10 -0400, amicus_curious wrote:
>
>> http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/282671/
>>
>> Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
>>
>> "In a setback for the City of Vienna's three-year-old open-source
>> migration programme, city authorities decided on Wednesday to scrap
>> most of the systems that have so far adopted the city's custom-built
>> Linux distribution, instead approving an ?8m migration to Windows
>> Vista.
>>
>> The Vienna district council on Wednesday formally approved a budget of
>> ?8m (£6.3m) for migrating Windows 2000 systems to Vista and Office
>> 2007, according to a report from Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), the
>> Austrian national public service broadcaster.
>>
>> The Vista migration will include 720 kindergarten systems that had been
>> migrated to Wienux, a Debian-based Linux distribution developed
>> internally by the city's IT body."
>>
>> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39429910,00.htm?r=4
>
> HAHAHAHAHA!!!
>
> Sounds like they were using the "Munich Method" of Linux migration.
>
> It's classic.
>
> Linux looks great until you try to implement it and then all the
> problems and instabilities of the Linux applications become apparent.
>
> Linux is like getting a phone call informing you that you have won an
> all expense paid cruise trip and then when the tickets arrive you
> realize that you have been booked on the Lusitania.



.... the "Munich method"? That would where the City continues its
migration to Linux ad OSS ....

--
Rick

 

[Matt]

Rick wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:56:12 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 12:52:10 -0400, amicus_curious wrote:
>>
>>> http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/282671/
>>>
>>> Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
>>>
>>> "In a setback for the City of Vienna's three-year-old open-source
>>> migration programme, city authorities decided on Wednesday to scrap
>>> most of the systems that have so far adopted the city's custom-built
>>> Linux distribution, instead approving an ?8m migration to Windows
>>> Vista.
>>>
>>> The Vienna district council on Wednesday formally approved a budget of
>>> ?8m (£6.3m) for migrating Windows 2000 systems to Vista and Office
>>> 2007, according to a report from Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), the
>>> Austrian national public service broadcaster.
>>>
>>> The Vista migration will include 720 kindergarten systems that had been
>>> migrated to Wienux, a Debian-based Linux distribution developed
>>> internally by the city's IT body."
>>>
>>> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39429910,00.htm?r=4
>> HAHAHAHAHA!!!
>>
>> Sounds like they were using the "Munich Method" of Linux migration.
>>
>> It's classic.
>>
>> Linux looks great until you try to implement it and then all the
>> problems and instabilities of the Linux applications become apparent.
>>
>> Linux is like getting a phone call informing you that you have won an
>> all expense paid cruise trip and then when the tickets arrive you
>> realize that you have been booked on the Lusitania.
>
>
>
> ... the "Munich method"? That would where the City continues its
> migration to Linux ad OSS ....
>


http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translat...t/stories/282671/&lp=de_en&btnTrUrl=Translate
(((((
> SPÖ: “Wienux is not away from the windowâ€
> Also SPÖ local council Siegfried Lindenmayr does not see Wienux yet at the end. “Wienux is not away from the window. The city Vienna inserts since 20 years open SOURCE software and also further will doâ€, thus Lindenmayr to ORF.at. “The employment of software is for us however no ideology question. The best educational software runs under Windows, therefore we will use Windows in the kindergarten.â€
)))))

 

[Canuck57]

"Moshe Goldfarb." <brick_n_straw@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1rw51gnomn1g3$.ejhzc8q3mh2z$.dlg@40tude.net...
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 12:52:10 -0400, amicus_curious wrote:
>
>> http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/282671/
>>
>> Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
>>
>> "In a setback for the City of Vienna's three-year-old open-source
>> migration
>> programme, city authorities decided on Wednesday to scrap most of the
>> systems that have so far adopted the city's custom-built Linux
>> distribution,
>> instead approving an ?8m migration to Windows Vista.
>>
>> The Vienna district council on Wednesday formally approved a budget of
>> ?8m
>> (£6.3m) for migrating Windows 2000 systems to Vista and Office 2007,
>> according to a report from Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), the Austrian
>> national public service broadcaster.
>>
>> The Vista migration will include 720 kindergarten systems that had been
>> migrated to Wienux, a Debian-based Linux distribution developed
>> internally
>> by the city's IT body."
>>
>> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39429910,00.htm?r=4
>
> HAHAHAHAHA!!!
>
> Sounds like they were using the "Munich Method" of Linux migration.
>
> It's classic.
>
> Linux looks great until you try to implement it and then all the problems
> and instabilities of the Linux applications become apparent.
>
> Linux is like getting a phone call informing you that you have won an all
> expense paid cruise trip and then when the tickets arrive you realize that
> you have been booked on the Lusitania.

LOL. Now Microsoft is stooping to advertise 720 desktops? LOL....

Oh, I have to roll over....hahaha