“The City of Munich’s LiMux project center is rejecting charges
by the Senate administration of Berlin that the migration to free
software has gotten stuck before it ever got going. As Project
director Peter Hofmann told heise online, ‘Open Source software at
the workplace is a reality in Munich.’ At the end of May, his
department presented the future basis client to the public at in
information day. At present, the pilot phase is focusing on a
software suite. The approximately 100 pilot users include Mayor
Christian Ude and his deputy Christine Strobl. Hofmann added that
‘most users’ in the city’s administration use individual Open
Source programs to surf the net, write e-mails, or edit graphics,
for example, ‘on the Microsoft Windows operating system, which
remains dominant…'”