14 DAY TRIAL // The City of Munich has announced that they've finally completed the switch to an open source desktop, after years of Microsoft domination.
The announcement has been made by Peter Hofmann, the head of the migration project, at the Linux Tag conference in Berlin.
"We took small steps, instead of a big bang approach. We prefer quality over time and choose making it ourselves over waiting or spending," said Peter Hofmann.
Munich is now using a distribution called Limux, and it's installed on 14.000 desktop PC, out of a total of 15.000.
“The city will now switch to using the LibreOffice, an open source suite of office productivity tools, replacing the current open source alternative OpenOffice, that is used since 2006,” Hofman confirmed on europa.eu.
The official savings, for this move, have been estimated at €10 million ($13 million).