Munich Linux Switch Back On

KingFishKingFish
edited August 2004 in Science & Tech
Munich, Germany's mayor has decided to push ahead with the LiMux project--which will see 14,000 desktops migrate from Windows to Linux--after it was suspended last week due to legal fears.
Munich's mayor, Christian Ude, had frozen the planned call for bids for the LiMux project after fears surfaced in the City council that a pending EU directive on software patents would wreak havoc with the rollout. Now, the call for bids is back on and Munich's officials have decided to suspend their legal worries rather than the project. Analyst house Gartner, however, has questioned Munich's party line, saying that TCO concerns were likely to be as much of an issue as software patents. "Gartner does not believe that the EU directive was Munich's primary motivation," the analyst firm said in a research note.
Source: ZDNet
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