The City of Munich praises Linux at the workplace

The City of Munich’s LiMux project center is rejecting charges by the Senate administration of Berlin that the migration to free software has gotten stuck before it ever got going. As Project director Peter Hofmann told heise online, “Open Source software at the workplace is a reality in Munich.” At the end of May, his department presented the future basis client to the public at in information day. At present, the pilot phase is focusing on a software suite. The approximately 100 pilot users include Mayor Christian Ude and his deputy Christine Strobl. Hofmann added that “most users” in the city’s administration use individual Open Source programs to surf the net, write e-mails, or edit graphics, for example, “on the Microsoft Windows operating system, which remains dominant.”