[kictanet] Munich completes migration to Linux and Open Source

[Evans Ikua]

*<Snippet: "Our main goal was to become independent." Peter Hofmann,
project lead>*

Breaking up with Microsoft is hard to do. Just ask Peter Hofmann, the man
leading the City of Munich's project to ditch Windows and Office in favour
of open source alternatives.

The project took close to a decade to complete, has seen the city wrestle
with legal uncertainties and earned Munich a visit from Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer, whose pleas to the mayor of Germany's third largest city not to
switch fell on deaf ears.

Munich says the move to open source has saved it more than €10m, a
claim contested
by Microsoft<http://www.zdnet.com/no-microsoft-open-source-software-really-is-cheaper-insists-munich-7000010918/>,
yet Hofmann says the point of making the switch was never about money, but
about freedom.
Read How Munich rejected Steve Ballmer and kicked Microsoft out of the
city<http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-munich-rejected-steve-ballmer-and-kicked-microsoft-out-of-the-city/?goback=.gde_66788_member_5810504405560094724#!>
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*----------------------------------------------------Kind Regards,Evans
Ikua,*
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