SuSE's Ul-Haque said that if customers want to migrate from Unix, Linux is the natural choice because there will be less of a learning curve: "When migrating from Unix to Linux, customers already have the skills in-house," she added.
The second part of the implementation will see the city's educational network migrate and consolidate from 100 Windows application servers to about 20 IBM eServer BladeCenters running Linux. Janicke Runshaug Foss, CIO of the City of Bergen, said...
The Austrian capital city of Vienna's local government is due to start migrating its desktop PCs to open source software in the second quarter of this year. Of its 16,000 desktop PCs, Vienna has identified 7,500 that could be migrated to OpenOffice...
The city of Munich will not start its migration to Linux on the desktop until 2006, a year later than planned and three years since it decided to migrate to Linux. Hofmann said the first department to migrate to Linux and OpenOffice.org will be...
The high costs of migrating from Windows XP to Windows Vista will be the catalyst that encourages more companies to seriously consider moving to desktop Linux, according to open source and networking company Novell on Monday.
Time and complexity are putting UK IT managers off migrating their organisation onto Microsoft's Vista operating system. New research has found nearly half of IT managers (49 per cent) will take more than 12 months to fully migrate their...