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thewayneI think they have a good plan and have an excellent chance of success. Several years ago Munich tried to switch to Linux, and last year they switched back to Windows. They tried an everything in one shot approach, which I think is doomed from the get go. Barcelona is starting with replacing their Exchange servers with Open-XChange, Internet Explorer with Firefox, and Office with LibreOffice. Then they'll continue from there, eventually replacing the underlying Windows OS with Ubuntu after all of the apps are open source. I'm not sure when they'll be replacing their data center servers with Linux, it's not mentioned in the Europa.eu article.
Apparently this is part of a new European campaign called Public Money, Public Code, of which Barcelona is the first country to attempt such a conversion. It certainly won't be easy being the first, but they'll be able to provide LOTS of information to other municipalities who go down this path later.
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/public-money-public-code
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/18/01/15/0415219/city-of-barcelona-dumps-windows-for-linux-and-open-source-software
https://publiccode.eu/
There's a good comment on the Slashdot story:
"Most IT shops do not know the answer to three questions
1) How much (all up, everything) do we pay microsoft in licence fees per year
2) How much do we pay other vendors for licence fees
3) Over 3 years how much have we paid for software- all up, including lawyers, audits, and licence management packages, and administrators who add nothing to the bottom line ensuring 'compliance'"
This can be a compelling reason to go open source like this.
Apparently this is part of a new European campaign called Public Money, Public Code, of which Barcelona is the first country to attempt such a conversion. It certainly won't be easy being the first, but they'll be able to provide LOTS of information to other municipalities who go down this path later.
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/public-money-public-code
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/18/01/15/0415219/city-of-barcelona-dumps-windows-for-linux-and-open-source-software
https://publiccode.eu/
There's a good comment on the Slashdot story:
"Most IT shops do not know the answer to three questions
1) How much (all up, everything) do we pay microsoft in licence fees per year
2) How much do we pay other vendors for licence fees
3) Over 3 years how much have we paid for software- all up, including lawyers, audits, and licence management packages, and administrators who add nothing to the bottom line ensuring 'compliance'"
This can be a compelling reason to go open source like this.
