Continued political backing was key to the success of the migration, said Hofmann.”We had it from the start and it never failed. We had to treat our politicians as stakeholders and keep them informed,” he said.By doing this, the politicians never lost interest and always knew what the people involved in the project were doing, he said. “I saw a lot of other open source projects going down the sink,” because they didn’t have that backing, or lost it, he said.....
The Munich city authority migrated around 14,800 of the 15,000 or so PCs on its network to LiMux, its own Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, exceeding its initial goal of migrating 12,000 desktops.... However, there were several delays along the way.First, the migration started a year later than originally planned, said Hofmann. The second delay was caused in 2007 when the city council decided that Munich’s IT department should also be responsible for the standardization of the infrastructure that is necessary for Linux clients, he said. ... The project was delayed for a third time in 2010, when the city council decided to enlarge the project, said Hofmann. Goals were added to develop three additional processes within the project: risk management, test management and requirement engineering. ... The heterogenous infrastructure of Munich’s IT organization was one of the projects biggest problems, Hofmann said. When the project started there were 22 organizations that each had their own individual configuration, software, hardware, processes and knowledge for their Windows clients and the accompanying infrastructure they were using, he said ... Munich’s switch did save money though. In November 2012, responding to a question from a council member, the city calculated that migrating to LiMux instead of modernizing its existing Microsoft software would save it over €11 million. ... ”It never was our goal to eliminate Windows as a whole,” he said, although the city has gone well beyond its initial target of migrating 80 percent of its PCs.The financial department, for instance, still has three Windows PCs running special banking software. To switch that department to LiMux the city would have had to pay the software vendor to develop a Linux version of its application for the three PCs, Hofmann said. Leia notícia completa com detalhes em: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2082460/moving-a-city-to-linux-needs-political-backing-says-munich-project-leader.html -- André Felipe Machado CEAGO/COTSC/COSTE As Lou Gerstner, former Chairman and CEO of IBM, observed: 'I came to see, in my time at IBM that culture isn’t just one aspect of the game; it *IS* the game.' ------------- - "Esta mensagem do SERVIÇO FEDERAL DE PROCESSAMENTO DE DADOS (SERPRO), empresa pública federal regida pelo disposto na Lei Federal nº 5.615, é enviada exclusivamente a seu destinatário e pode conter informações confidenciais, protegidas por sigilo profissional. Sua utilização desautorizada é ilegal e sujeita o infrator às penas da lei. Se você a recebeu indevidamente, queira, por gentileza, reenviá-la ao emitente, esclarecendo o equívoco." "This message from SERVIÇO FEDERAL DE PROCESSAMENTO DE DADOS (SERPRO) -- a government company established under Brazilian law (5.615/70) -- is directed exclusively to its addressee and may contain confidential data, protected under professional secrecy rules. Its unauthorized use is illegal and may subject the transgressor to the law's penalties. If you're not the addressee, please send it back, elucidating the failure." _______________________________________________ Cisl-comunidade mailing list [email protected] http://listas.softwarelivre.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cisl-comunidade
