Peter Hofmann, the project leader of the Linux migration in the City of Munich, code-named LiMux, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday what it feels like to become a star in the Linux world.
Munich has started to migrate to Linux on the desktop -- a year later than planned.
The City of Munich has chosen to migrate its 14,000 desktops to a free Linux distribution, rather than a commercial version of the open source operating system.
Software patent campaigner Florian Mueller revealed this week that the City of Munich's decision to stall its Linux migration, was the result of a PR stunt by anti-patent campaigners.
The city of Amsterdam has become the latest high-profile public sector organisation to evaluate the potential of open-source software.
In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards -- not cost -- is driving the German city's shift to Linux.
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Marketing director Paul Salazar admits there have been plenty of hiccups along the way but says Red Hat is now working hard to please the open-source community and investors alike.
Hewlett-Packard's introduction of the Darwin Reference Architecture at a customer event in Munich, Germany this week did little to help clients grapple with the elusive concept of the "adaptive enterprise."
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