yet another migration fails...

[szymon_g]

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Die-Woche-Bruchlandung-fuer-den-Pinguin-1080686.html

"(..)after the decision, the computer of the canton of Solothurn to migrate to Linux for nine years, now came the radical U-turn: All desktops are switched to Windows 7. Hat Linux versagt? Linux has failed?(..)"

well... another 'year of the linux' fiasco

[ubunterooster]

WAAAAAH! http://www.easyfreesmileys.com/smileys/free-sad-smileys-731.gif

[grahammechanical]

Does not say much for using a computer to translate either.

[Dr. C]

There is a right and a wrong way to go about a migration to FLOSS. The right way is a gradual start with the applications (for example OpenOffice on Windows) and after the applications have been migrated then and the users are comfortable with them then migrate the OS. This is an example of the right way http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu.ars. What is significant here is that Ubuntu was adopted only after they were using FLOSS on Windows for years.

On the other hand, let the Windows infrastructure first decline by neglect, then go cold turkey to GNU / Linux, don't look at the implications, don't involve the users etc., and the migration is doomed to failure.