HOW MUNICH SWITCHED 15,000 PCS FROM WINDOWS TO LINUXMunich city council has migrated 15,000 workers from Windows to Linux. It’s a great success story for Free Software, and it upset Microsoft enormously. We visited the city and talked to Peter Hofmann, the man behind the migration – so read on for all the juicy details about what went right, what went wrong, and what made Steve Ballmer sweat…
This chart shows the migration path in 2012: from 9,000 desktops at the start of the year to 14,000 by the end.