The city of Munich will not start its migration to Linux on the desktop until 2006, a year later than planned and three years since it decided to go with the open-source operating system. The ...

Munich, Germany and Norway’s second largest city, Bergen, have announced that they will be switching from Microsoft in favor of Linux. The Munich city council voted 50 to 29 for the change, but has ...

Poor IT governance has prevented the IRS from making progress on a long-term effort to migrate 141 legacy applications from proprietary vendor software to open-source Linux operating systems, ...

Munich – the city whose switch to Linux was seen as so significant it attracted a personal visit from Steve Ballmer – has announced that its year-long trial has proved a success and the local ...

The migration of around 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 open-source projects ...

BOSTON – Linux is easier to deploy and maintain than its reputation might suggest, IT company executives said at LinuxWorld this week. “Together, let’s work on the few remaining holdouts and get them ...

The biggest-ever Windows-to-Linux migration--the city of Munich's 14,000 desktops--has been put on ice while legal issues are settled. The switch has been temporarily suspended over fears incoming EU ...

IBM is readying a program to push its enterprise software running on Linux as an alternative to Microsoft software running on that company’s soon-to-be discontinued Windows NT operating system. The ...

Microsoft Corp. spent a considerable amount of time, money and energy trying to convince corporate IT shops that moving from Windows to Linux servers wouldn’t make sense — but at least for now, it’s ...

All of our backend processing has been running on Sun/Oracle Sparc systems under Solaris 8-11 for a number of years. In an effort to get out from under the pricey Oracle environment, we've recently ...