zebidiah@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
didn’t another german state already try this and fail pretty spectacularly?? cost them WAY more money and then they ended up rolling back to m$??
given that, this is fantastic news! it’s good to see people learn from past failed implementations, hopefully learn from their mistakes, and try again instead of just blaming it on bad software
I’ve been trying to find a source but from what I remember the transition was in maybe Munich and it was going fine.
Microsoft opened a new sales or operation center there and got cozy with the government there as quickly as possible to turn them back into a customer.
You have to know how to do it right. It can be bad.
vodka@feddit.org 5 days ago
You’re not thinking about when Microsoft bribed their way into them not switching by opening an office in the area?
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 days ago
This. It was the city of Munich. They had their own linux distro “Munix” and everything. Then the conservative got into power. You know the rest.
demonsword@lemmy.world 5 days ago
that’s the second or third statement in most modern cautionary tales nowadays
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Conservative is synonymous with corruption, these days.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah, it was a political decision, not one based on how well the Linux transition worked.
They used Linux for quite some time productively. It wasn’t a failed transition at all.