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Again? I love Germany, but I honestly can't tell whether this is an old news brought back to life, or whether it's a new story at a glance. Deja vu anyone?
Slashdot, 2001: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/01/10/16/1525231/german-par... And 2006: https://slashdot.org/story/06/10/28/226211/munich-migrating-...
So Munich goes open source -> Hamburg gets inspired
and BAM - 14 years later it follows suit.
Does Desktop OS matter anymore? So much is running in "browsers" now, even the SpaceX astronaut controls were Electron. The cloud provider is where it's at. AWS, Azure, GCloud ... and nothing from Europe.
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Why not? Seems unreasonable to expect that every city can manage their own secure data store...
my small city wastes money on much less useful stuff... like fireworks and such
The appropriate question to ask is: at which size can you afford a competent security team in-house for what you would pay for a secure cloud offering. I would actually love to know the answer to that question.
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Many countries are currently ditching Windows in favor of home grown distros due to distrust of Microsoft. Notable examples: Currently transitioning: - Astra Linux (Russia) https://www.zdnet.com/article/russian-military-moves-closer-... - Kylin Linux? (China) https://www.techradar.com/news/china-to-ditch-all-windows-pc... - South Korea https://www.zdnet.com/article/south-koreas-government-explor... Already transition…
Is there really a need for them to create their own distributions?
Also if your country does not need to follow the laws about the codecs you can include them and not have your users have to install them.
Much more important: Schools are moving to Office 365 in a rush in face of Covid-19. There are data protection concerns but a crisis can shift priorities so it seems.
Right now we need an opensource teleconferencing system much more than an opensource OS. Edit: I think people recommending jitsi below misunderstood my comment
Windows, Office and Win Server (AD) make a combo that is quite difficult to replace. But if these cities are smart, they would pool their resources together to fund common tools. All the bits and pieces are already here. What is needed is a solid package that can be deployed and maintained easily, with user friendly GUI.
Windows, Office and Win Server (AD) make a combo that is quite difficult to replace. But if these cities are smart, they would pool their resources together to fund common tools. All the bits and pieces are already here. What is needed is a solid package that can be deployed and maintained easily, with user friendly GUI.
Difficult question: how do you make people in power agree on a solution? Not even universities managed so far to standardize their IT infra.
Germany is a country where one city orders would new trains which would eventually crash into the next city's platform due to different platform dimensions [0]...
[0] https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/duesseldorfer-r...