Munich dumps proprietary for open source (again) – but no Linux desktop
Source: ZDNet ·
Open source in the public sector doesn’t fail because of technical issues. It fails because it’s not aligned with the political agenda
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PRAGUE — At Open Source Summit Europe , Dr. Laura Dornheim, Munich’s chief digital officer, said in her keynote speech that Munich abandoned its LiMux Linux desktop deployment for Windows over a decade ago because of politics, but now it’s returning to open-source software. Also: Linus Torvalds is using AI to develop Linux kernel code now It’s not returning to the Linux desktop, however — not yet, anyway. Instead, it’s switching its infrastructure programs from proprietary software to open-source software. For example, it’s replacing VMware with Proxmox , moving from Jira and Confluence to OpenProjec t and XWiki , and adopting PostgreSQL as an alternative to Oracle databases. The two infrastructure and collaboration migrations alone are expected to save roughly €1.5 million or more annually. Taken together, these projects illustrate the difference between Munich’s first Linux campaign and its current approach. Rather than making desktop Linux its center pole, the city is replacing…