“The administration of the Berlin Senate (the governement of the
German federal state Berlin) has voiced its opposition to a
complete migration of the authority’s computers to Linux. It thus
opposes the Berlin Parliament, which called for a two-phase
migration of servers and workstations to Open Sources systems. The
report presented to heise online on the Parliament’s position
states that the Senate does not believe the migration to free
software called for in the resolution ‘would conform to the market
or be a tenable step either technologically or economically.’ The
paper signed by governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit and Interior Senator
Ehrhart Körting (both in the SPD) says that the resolution
would ‘not to be feasible’ if taken to its logical consequences. It
argues that complete migration run contrary to the goals of
Berlin’s IT strategy.