[Cisl-comunidade] Moving a city to Linux needs political backing, says Munich project leader

[Andre Felipe Machado]

Continued political backing was key to the success of the migration, said Hofmann.”We had it from the start and it never failed. We had to treat our politicians as stakeholders and keep them informed,” he said.By
 doing this, the politicians never lost interest and always knew what 
the people involved in the project were doing, he said. “I saw a lot of 
other open source projects going down the sink,” because they didn’t 
have that backing, or lost it, he said.....

The Munich city authority 
migrated around 14,800 of the 15,000 or so PCs on its network to LiMux, 
its own Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, exceeding its initial goal 
of migrating 12,000 desktops....

However, there were several delays along the way.First,
 the migration started a year later than originally planned, said 
Hofmann. The second delay was caused in 2007 when the city council 
decided that Munich’s IT department should also be responsible for the 
standardization of the infrastructure that is necessary for Linux 
clients, he said. ...

The project was delayed 
for a third time in 2010, when the city council decided to enlarge the 
project, said Hofmann. Goals were added to develop three additional 
processes within the project: risk management, test management and 
requirement engineering.

...

The heterogenous 
infrastructure of Munich’s IT organization was one of the projects 
biggest problems, Hofmann said. When the project started there were 22 
organizations that each had their own individual configuration, 
software, hardware, processes and knowledge for their Windows clients 
and the accompanying infrastructure they were using, he said

...
Munich’s switch did save 
money though. In November 2012, responding to a question from a council 
member, the city calculated that migrating to LiMux instead of 
modernizing its existing Microsoft software would save it over €11 million.

...

”It never was 
our goal to eliminate Windows as a whole,” he said, although the city 
has gone well beyond its initial target of migrating 80 percent of its 
PCs.The financial department, for instance, 
still has three Windows PCs running special banking software. To switch 
that department to LiMux the city would have had to pay the software 
vendor to develop a Linux version of its application for the three PCs, 
Hofmann said.

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-- 
André Felipe Machado

CEAGO/COTSC/COSTE
As Lou Gerstner, former Chairman 
and CEO of IBM, observed: 'I came to see, in my time at IBM that culture
 isn’t just one aspect of the game; it *IS* the game.'
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