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 ...

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 – 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Easy-to-use "Progression Desktop" allows users to transfer e-mail, files and settings from Windows to Linux SAN DIEGO and SANTA BARBARA, Calif., December 22, 2005 – Versora and Linspire, Inc. today ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, I mentioned a report in an Australian tech magazine, which said that Novell was seriously behind in its project to roll out Linux on the desktop to 5,000 users in-house. As it turns out, ...