[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/5/2024 9:41 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> The most notorious case has to be the Munich city council, which moved to
> Linux years ago, then faced a massive pressure campaign from Microsoft
> (aided and abetted by HP, I think it was, at one stage) to try to make it
> appear that they were worse off as a result. Which they were not.

Some like to blame MS for what happened. But the project
execution does not seem attractive to follow.

* significant software development to develop Munich specific
   solutions:
   - a special Linux "distro" LiMux
   - a large extension to OpenOffice/LibreOffice called Wollmux
     needed because base software did not do what they wanted
* constant changes in base software:
   - Debian -> Ubuntu 10.04 -> Ubuntu 12.04 -> Ubuntu 14.04 -> Kubuntu 18
   - KDE 3.5 -> KDE 4.12 -> KDE 4.14 -> KDE 5.44
   - OpenOffice 3.1 -> LibreOffice 4.1 -> LibreOffice 4.15 -> 
LibreOffice 5.2
   - Firefox -> Chrome
* never got Linux adoption over 5/6 of PC's meaning that
   they still had to support Windows in parallel

That sounds like a total IT fuckup to me.

I don't think it is Linux'es fault. Similar disasters has
happened for closed source software. Like various ERP projects.

But it is not an example that any smart CIO want to follow.

Arne