Munich council: To hell with Linux, we're going full Windows in 2020 (Resistance is Futile)

Linux has been designed client/server for about 99% if it's existence. IOW--it's always been client/server.

Apparently, you have a hard time reading what's written, or you have a problem with reading for comprehension.

Linux and Windows have been used as client/server OSes. I have not disputed that. Where the heck did you read that I disputer that? Don't make things up just because you want to win an argument.

\ What I did write is that, ALL OSes will have to be built for clients handling the end-user side, and servers handling the remote services/processing side.

Meanwhile. Linux is still lacking behind Windows on the local side, but that won't matter, since, eventually both will have to split to serving separate functions, with the thinly redesigned OS serving the client side, and the "bloated" OS serving the remote functions. Right now, Linux is serving as a "thin" client with Android on smartphones, and the back-end Linus servers at Google and phone-makers, serving the requests from those clients. But, most of what smartphones and even PCs do, is via browsers, and those browsers are being served by cloud services, those services coming from a myriad of services providers. Thus, both Windows and Linux are "bloated" in the sense that, most of what they do will be taken over by the remote servers/services. It's already happened and will happen a lot more, and eventually, there won't be much for Linux and Windows to do at the local level.

Azure and AWS and other cloud services will be doing the heavy work. Linux as it stands today will become irrelevant, and so will Windows as it stands today. Apple is also behind the times with its "bloated" MacOS.

Windows might be a "nice little toy" to you, but, it's doing most of the work around the world, as both, clients and servers. I like using the most used "little toy" in the world, and so do over 1.5 billion people. You can keep your 1.5% OS. I like working with solutions which are more easily available with the Windows platform.

IF that was why they made the initial decision, then it was the wrong decision. Software is a tool. Use the tool that gets the job done.

Unfortunately, many IT decisions are made that way. People can hate a corporation or a piece of software or have become attached to a particular way of doing things, and make their decisions based on what they have known or love, while disregarding what problems might arise or what costs might arise, while disregarding that whatever has been doing the job adequately and cost-effectively, might be the better way for the future.

Many decisions are made out of from perceptions, and not from what is best for a company or what is better in the long-run. What Munich did, for the most part, is to take what Windows was back in 2003, and converted its functions and applications and software from back then, not really looking at how things had changed and not really examining how things weren't meshing or not across the whole IT landscape for the city. Thus, a lot of incompatibilities were left to be resolved at the end or for when time allowed. In any case, timelines were missed and costs continued to rise, and even today, a lot of the people in IT are in denial about the issues, and continue trying to push to keep LiMux and the other applications which kind of met their goals. But, not all goals were met and a lot of incompatibilities were not fixed. In addition, the personnel working with Linux were having problems with their "new" way of doing things, especially when they needed to continue using a lot of boxes that were kept on Windows.

Who knows, eventually they might have resolved all their issues, but, why not go with solutions which they knew existed elsewhere and were "known quantities"? Besides, with Munich starting off with converting from Windows XP, they undoubtedly were not counting on the future of desktops and servers becoming "mostly CLOUDY". It's 14 years later, and the cloud is mostly the new way of doing things, like it or not.

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