At Open Source Summit Europe, Munich chief digital officer Laura Dornheim said the city is again moving away from proprietary software, but not back to LiMux, the Debian/Kubuntu Linux desktop it abandoned in the mid-2010s. Munich is replacing VMware with Proxmox, Jira and Confluence with OpenProject and XWiki, and Oracle databases with PostgreSQL, a pair of infrastructure and collaboration migrations expected to save roughly EUR 1.5 million or more a year. Dornheim attributed LiMux’s demise to politics rather than technology – a change of city government coincided with Microsoft agreeing to base its German headquarters in Munich – and argued that public-sector open source mostly fails when it is not aligned with the political agenda. The report notes the strategy is to replace individual infrastructure layers where a practical case can be made rather than making desktop Linux the centrepiece.
Munich dumps proprietary for open source again, but keeps Windows on the desktop
At Open Source Summit Europe, Munich chief digital officer Laura Dornheim said the city is again moving away from proprietary software, but not back to LiMux, the Debian/Kubuntu Linux desktop it abandoned in the mid-2010s. Munich is replacing VMware with Proxmox, Jira and Confluence with OpenProject and XWiki, and Oracle databases with PostgreSQL, a pair of infrastructure and collaboration migrations expected to save roughly EUR 1.5 million or more a year. Dornheim attributed LiMux's demise to politics rather than technology -- a change of city government coincided with Microsoft agreeing to base its German headquarters in Munich -- and argued that public-sector open source mostly fails when it is not aligned with the political agenda. The report notes the strategy is to replace individual infrastructure layers where a practical case can be made rather than making desktop Linux the centrepiece.
Source: Zdnet