El caso de Múnich

Uno de los casos de éxito que más veces he oído nombrar. No es para menos. La ciudad de Múnich, con 14.000 PCs, y la siguiente sucesión de acontecimientos.

Como dice el sabio aforismo popular… diríase que del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho.

Mayo de 2003 - Microsoft down and out in Munich

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/05/28/microsoft_down_and_out/

“Munich will dump 14,000 PCs running Windows and install Linux instead in what is one of the biggest moves away from Redmond to date”.

Julio de 2003 - Linux in Munich – Gartner gets retaliation in prematurely?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/22/linux_in_munich_gartner_gets/

Gartner analiza los costes y la metodología y no le termina de cuadrar. Según The Register, está claro que Gartner no se entera.

Enero de 2004 - Munich Linux setback

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/15/munich_linux_setback/

This Spring, Munich needs to finish a migration plan as well as present a budget for the project. But according to Computerwoche there is not enough money and technical difficulties may result in stalling of the LiMux Project.

Junio de 2004 - Munich embraces the penguin

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/17/munich_embraces_penguin/

The city council of Munich yesterday decided to go ahead with its planned migration from proprietary to open source applications. Although financial and technical problems have dogged Project LiMux, Munich's Rathaus (City Hall) will now migrate 16,000 desktop PCs to the Linux operating system.

Agosto de 2004 - Munich OSS switch to go ahead, patents or no patents

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/12/munich_oss_still_on/

"Even if we can't say what the impact would be," he said, "that would still be sufficient answer to give the city council."

Septiembre de 2005 - Munich's Linux migration heads south for the winter

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/06/linux_migration/

Munich's city administrators' much-discussed migration to Linux has been delayed until 2006, according to reports, because of an additional pilot phase that was not accounted for in the original plans.

Septiembre de 2006 – Munich begins Linux replacement of Windows

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9003515

Since Tuesday, the first 100 of the city's 14,000 PCs have been switched from Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and Office applications to Linux and OpenOffice.

Enero de 2007 - Munich buys Windows 2000 used licenses

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/01/02/munich_buys_windows_2000/

it will buy 2000 legit "used licenses" of Windows 2000 Professional, claiming it will save them money. ¿Uh?

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Juanjo Carmena