Re: [News] Germany Produces Guide for Free Software Migration

[Moshe Goldfarb.]

On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:14:06 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

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> DE: Manual for migrating to Open Source updated
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>| The German Ministry of the Interior has published the third edition of
>| its 'Migrationsleitfaden', a manual for public administrations migrating to
>| Open Source.

You're kidding right?

Hey Roy Schestowitz, does this German manual explain how to take 14 years
to migrate 10,000 Windows desktop systems to Linux?

Maybe the people in Munich should read this guide and cut a few years off
of that Munich Migration clusterfuck.....

Hint: You should set your SPAMBOT filters to ignore anything with the word
Munich in it because the Munich migration is hardly a crowning jewel for
the Linux community.

In fact it is considered a complete mess.

Don't say I never gave you good advice Roy Schestowitz.


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[Moshe Goldfarb.]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:27:17 -0400, DFS wrote:

> Mark Kent wrote:
>
>> The munich project was enormous,
>
> LMAO! So is cola's reservoir of idiocy and lies.
>
>
>
>> and inevitably, came up against all
>> manner of lock-in related problems.
>
> They should have used Python and gtk+ and MySQL.
>
>
>
>> Even so, it continues apace, and
>> will complete in due course.
>
> in due course = it will stumble in years late - like Linux itself. They're
> already 7 years into the project, and last I heard 2012 is the new
> completion date. In the private world, such a project would have been
> cancelled a long time ago.
>
> http://www.muenchen.de/Rathaus/dir/limux/english/147197/index.html
> http://www.muenchen.de/cms/prod1/mde/_de/rubriken/Rathaus/40_dir/limux/publ/free_softw.pdf
>
>
>
>> What will be more interesting, though, will be the budget analysis
>> post the migration.
>
> huh? There's nothing left to analyze. It's over budget, past due, and
> would be cancelled except for nationalistic pride.
>
>
>
>> At some point,
>
> 10 years hence?
>
>
>> it will be possible for cash to
>> be spent on next-generation mobility devices, network clients,
>
> ahh... "the desktop is dead!"
>
>
>
>> and so on, as the lock-in problems should be close to elimination.
>
> Replaced by Linux lock-in, of course. What, you think all that OpenOffice
> macro code will be useful outside OpenOffice?

The Linux loons aren't even smart enough to bury this disaster.
They keep bringing up the Munich Migration like it is something positive
for the Linux community.

It's a complete joke and a testament to the ineptness of the people doing
the migration as well as the difficulty in moving from Windows to Linux
that the average firm will encounter.


Only a rabid Linux zealot would still continue to make like the Muncih
Migration is a success for Linux.

What a piker....

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[Moshe Goldfarb.]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:42:35 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:

> "Mark Kent" <mark.kent@demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:gi66m5-7ia.ln1@ellandroad.demon.co.uk...
>> R. Burris <rb@example.com> espoused:
>>> Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Maybe the people in Munich should read this guide and cut a few years
>>> > off
>>> > of that Munich Migration clusterfuck.....
>>>
>>> >
>>> > In fact it is considered a complete mess.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux#Timeline
>>>
>>> -------------------
>>> LiMux is a project in Munich for migrating 14,000 personal computers and
>>> laptops of public employees to Free and Open Source Software/free
>>> software. With 16,000 users, LiMux is the largest[citation needed]
>>> deployment of Linux and OpenOffice.org in the public sector so far, and
>>> this symbolic value turned it into one of the world's highest profile
>>> migration projects[citation needed].
>>>
>>> * March 2008 1,000 out of 14,000 have migrated to the Limux
>>> environment (7%), in addition 6000 workstations have OpenOffice.org 2.x
>>> installed on windows and more than 90% have Firefox 1.5.x and
>>> Thunderbird 1.5.x installed on Windows clients. [10]
>>>
>>> * The migration of 80 percent of the users is expected to be
>>> complete late-2008 to mid-2009[citation needed].
>>>
>>> -------------------
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Go Limux! Go FOSS!
>>>
>>
>> The munich project was enormous, and inevitably, came up against all
>> manner of lock-in related problems. Even so, it continues apace, and
>> will complete in due course.
>
>
> They should have learned their lesson from this other linux disaster.
>
> http://www.linux.org/news/2006/11/14/0002.html
>
> <quote>
> A publicly funded Linux project which cost UK taxpayers half-a-million
> pounds has flopped.
>
> </quote>


Was Roy Schestowitz involved in the project in any way, shape or form?
It has all the signs of his incompetency.


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