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German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
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[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 64 points 7 months ago (19 children)

So the Germany has been moving back and forth between Microsoft and Linux / open-source.

When Munich decided to ditch many of its Windows installations in favor of Linux in 2003, it was considered a groundbreaking moment for open source software -- it was proof that Linux could be used for large-scale government work. However, it looks like that dream didn't quite pan out as expected. The German city has cleared a plan to put Windows 10 on roughly 29,000 city council PCs starting in 2020. There will also be a pilot where Munich runs Office 2016 in virtual machines. The plan was prompted by gripes about both the complexity of the current setup and compatibility headaches.

Do you know what this smells like? Corruption and consulting companies with friends in the govt looking for ways to profit.

What else can be more profitable for a consulting company than shifting the entire IT of a city or a country between two largely incompatible solutions? :)

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What else can be more profitable for a consulting company than shifting the entire IT of a city or a country between two largely incompatible solutions? :)

See that's the neat thing SH has (together with HH, HB and ST) its own IT consultancy. Public enterprise, not some public-private partnership, and 5300 staff a quite a bit more than what Munich's IT department has.

And yes of course Munich is corrupt what do you expect it's Bavaria.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So… it’s exactly what I said but with extra steps.

A way to provide money to the friends and have underplayed govt workers without the benefits and the stability 😂

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Nah dataport doesn't make profit, or at least it's not paying out any to the states. It's about as close to a ministry as you can get without being required to pay government wages and there's not many in the industry who'd work for that. They don't pay as much as FAANG or even SAP but among the wider industry it's definitely competitive, especially if you don't plan on job-hopping and dodging lay-offs.

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