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"As everything needed to be developed by ourselves, the city's IT was 10 to 15 years behind market standard. The City of Munich is not an IT developer, but has other major concerns to deal with."

That is the major issue with Linux, any flavor of it, LiMux included.

Linux is still doing things the old fashion way. Not a bad thing, but the world moves on, and now, just about everything is getting "cloudy", and the LiMux flavor of Linux was not getting modernized, and could not handle the cloud way of doing things. "Everything as a service" is where computing/IT is headed, and the services are being done on the cloud. Applications are bring migrated to the cloud, storage requirements are being handled on the cloud, files are being handled on the cloud, hardware no longer needs to be local, and most processing is moving to the cloud. Even OSes are becoming cloud-based. Software design is being handled via the cloud. In summary, all IT requirements are being moved to the cloud.

Limux was/is a conversion that is, like the article says above, at least 15 years behind the times. Going forward, Limux and many Linux distros, would have been left incompatible with the cloud way of doing things. The management at Munich should have stopped the conversion FROM Windows at least 10 years ago, when they first noticed the incompatibilities and the overrun in costs, and the nature of what LiMux had become, which was a moving target. Essentially, the IT management at Munich was so anti-MS around 2002-2003, that it was bound and determined to get away from MS and go with their love for Linux, come hell or high water. IOW, the decision to migrate away from MS was more emotions and anger and hate, than frugal and intelligent. Something like that eventually comes back to bite. Meanwhile 10s of millions of dollars will have been wasted on illogical decisions.

Yeah, why do the same job with 30 megabytes when 4 terabytes will do the same thing?

Going forward, Limux and many Linux distros, would have been left incompatible with the cloud way of doing things.

Sounds like you have no clue about that which you speak.