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Munich had problems in all directions, mostly stemming from an IT department which made their initial decisions by hating on Microsoft and loving Linux(which is always popular to do).

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.

Software is a tool. Use the tool that gets the job done.

+1. Excellent.

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.