Everything’s working just fine, claims IT@M’s Karl-Heinz Schneider,Cloud and Infrastructure,Software,Open Source ,Munich,Linux
Karl-Heinz Schneider, the head of IT at the City of Munich’s IT services provider IT@M, the company behind the City’s desktop Linux implementation, has claimed that there are no “compelling technical reasons” for the authority to order a migration back to Windows.
Speaking to German IT publication Heise.de, Schneider claimed that he was surprised by the move, adding that any compatibility problems that the City had encountered had been fixed.
IT@M had developed LiMux, a distribution of Linux for the local authority based on Ubuntu and rolled it out to 20,000 workstations across the organisation. However, following a review by services giant Accenture, politicians at the City of Munich ordered a return to Windows by 2020.
The report suggest that running Linux was proving more costly than expected and ” The Linux client and the LibreOffice open-source office package , which was used in parallel, also caused compatibility problems, and many municipal computers, systems and workflows did not run smoothly”.
