Robert Pogson, yet another self-proclaimed “technologist” who only focuses on a small fraction of the total technology out there, thinks the Munich Limux Project is “in good shape”.
A Brief History
Back in early 2003, the city of Munich decided to refuse major discounts from Microsoft to update their computer infrastructure, instead opting to migrate to Linux. The conversion would cost the city $35.7 million USD and was to have all 14,000 workstations converted by 2006.
After countless delays, false starts, poor planning and consistently incorrect estimations, in 2010, the city of Munich is still in the process of converting their workstations to Limux. As it stands, only 2,500 (%17.8) workstations have been converted so far, the rest are still running NT4 and Windows 2000.
Even at the time of its inception, the conversion plan was going to cost the city more than the Microsoft plan. However, the decision to switch was kept secret from the public until the plan was already in action.
This is all chronologically documented in the Munich Linux Watch blog in their Timeline of Failure article.
Prescription Needed
When you’re wearing the rose coloured glasses that Robert Pogson wears, a “timeline of failure” easily translates to a “history of success”. Those glasses must be 3 feet thick.
Comments
Watching him flail hopelessly mixing it up with the commentators who are clearly more informed than him, despite his 40 years experience and know-it-all attitude is rather amusing.
Poggo is remarkably like oiaohm, yet without the charm or the dylsexia. I’ll mod “rather amusing” up and suggest “friggin’ hilarious” instead.
“I have used Pascal Server Pages but it offers far too many features (bloat) for the CGI scripts I usually use. CGI has some overhead starting processes so the bloat is a negative. My CGI scripts parse a string and are done. You could call that interpretation but it is nothing about code and all about data. Applications need data.”
If somebody submitted that to me as part of an answer to a question in CompSci 101, I’d mark them up for remedial work and suggest a more suitable choice of career. Village idiots are popular, these days.
Please do not insult oiaohm (at least the real one) like that DrLoser, this guy isn’t horribly dyslexic and yet manages to make less sense :).
It’s like his mind is not only completely devoid of any form of logic, but he’s also one of those fanatic people who, despite being proven wrong with irrefutable evidence, still hold on to their misguided beliefs.
I’d hate having a teacher like him.
Also he doesn’t need to be a village idiot, he’s a worldwide idiot! They’ve modernized their profession with blogs and forums.
It has a disturbing similarity to the fanaticism displayed by David Koresh followers; any day now, aaaany day now, the rest of the world see the light. What’s even sadder is that this story has a sequel. So, okay, we have two different city councils attempting to switch to Linux. Both decide to roll out their own distros (because, despite how awesome Linux supposedly is, none of the current distros satisfy their needs). Both are failures, the only difference Vienna was quicker to admit it than Munich. What have we learnt here, kids? That Linux isn’t ready for mass-adoption in office environments? That the cost-saving propaganda touted by Linux evangelists is nonsense? No way! Listen to Tony Mobily’s post on FSM! It’s a covert “m$” conspiracy.
@Delano
the cost effectiveness argument won’t work, zealots will retort “of course it cost more, freedom is not free” (as in gratis) (i think there should be a TM for that) sice they put philosophical purity and not depending on proprietary “non standard” (this flawed notion that unix is the only true informatic “standard” btw…) solutions from a single “evil” vendor (ie no lock-in) first, money is collateral
i wonder if anyone has ever told them that if one doesn’t want to depend on a certain vendor (MS), product (Windows / Office) or format (.doc) because they may be no longer existent or supported in a remote future, it’s not like red hat, canonical, open office and odf give better reassurances …
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