Computerworld: Migrating Apps is Challenge for Munich Linux Project

[ Thanks to Jason Greenwood for this link. ]

"The migration of about 300 business applications from Windows to Linux is one of the biggest challenges facing the city of Munich, which has embarked on one of Europe's largest public-sector open-source projects.

"'We knew from the start that migrating our many city administration-specific applications would not be easy,' said Florian Schiessl, a manager in the city's Linux-migration project, called LiMux. 'And it isn't, frankly...'"

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