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 ...

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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 go with the open-source operating system. The ...

The migration of around 300 business applications from Windows to Linux is one of the biggest challenges facing the city of Munich, which has embarked on one of Europe’s largest open-source projects ...

Munich, Germany and Norway’s second largest city, Bergen, have announced that they will be switching from Microsoft in favor of Linux. The Munich city council voted 50 to 29 for the change, but has ...

The biggest-ever Windows-to-Linux migration--the city of Munich's 14,000 desktops--has been put on ice while legal issues are settled. The switch has been temporarily suspended over fears incoming EU ...

Easy-to-use "Progression Desktop" allows users to transfer e-mail, files and settings from Windows to Linux SAN DIEGO and SANTA BARBARA, Calif., December 22, 2005 – Versora and Linspire, Inc. today ...

BOSTON - Linux is easier to deploy and maintain than its reputation might suggest, IT company executives said at LinuxWorld this week. "Together, let's work on the few remaining holdouts and get them ...

Microsoft Corp. spent a considerable amount of time, money and energy trying to convince corporate IT shops that moving from Windows to Linux servers wouldn’t make sense — but at least for now, it’s ...

Part 1 of this two-part series discusses ways to transition into Linux without leaving Windows behind all at once. Six months ago, I began a self-imposed experiment to see if I couldsurvive leaving ...

Poor IT governance has prevented the IRS from making progress on a long-term effort to migrate 141 legacy applications from proprietary vendor software to open-source Linux operating systems, ...

The deal expands an existing relationship and poses a competitive threat to another BEA partner, Sun Microsystems. Sun derives much of its revenue from its Unix-based Solaris operating system and ...