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Saturday, August 07, 2004

Windows to Linux switch - Munich's mayor speaks

Silicon.com: "While the Bavarian capital has effectively suspended the second phase of its open source migration project, there's a big difference between suspended and cancelled. Chrisitian Ude, the mayor of Munich, is now hoping to get Berlin to change its mind on the thorny issue of software patents. The Social Democrat mayor has put out the official word on the LiMux project, proclaiming loudly that no one has given up on it. A small IT firm from the region, SWM Software Marketing, had previously sowed seeds of doubt by publishing an alarmist statement; the document confirmed that the project had been frozen since the first call for bids had been suspended. The LiMux project, which was to migrate the City's laptop and desktops from Windows to Linux, has become a very sensitive subject in the Bavarian capital. 'The town stands by the LiMux initiative and its strategic decision in favour of open-source solutions,' the mayor said in a statement on the city council's website. Munich's techies have already presented 'the strategic advantages of Linux solutions' to fellow Bavarian councils in Nuremburg and Augsburg. 'We are happy to see the interest that our project is attracting in those towns, as well as in Vienna,' said Ude. If the Austrian capital's local authority, also controlled by social democrats, has effectively recognised the advantages of open source, it has followed a somewhat different - and more timid - path from Munich's."

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