More than a Decade of GNU/Linux at Schwäbisch Hall, Germany at Robert Pogson

The imminent death of NT4 prompted Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, to migrate from that other OS to GNU/Linux (Google Translate of http://www.schwaebischhall.de/buergerstadt/rathaus/linux.html) over several years starting in 1997 for servers and 2001 for desktops. They found GNU/Linux was solid on servers and wanted and obtained that performance on desktops. That reflects my own experience about that time but I had only standard desktop applications to migrate. They had a bunch of ancient business-specific applications, some of which they had to move to that other OS on terminal servers or run on Wine.

They still run GNU/Linux today and are happy with it:
Overall, the managers of the City of Schwäbisch Hall believes that open systems have distinct advantages:

They are flexible and can adapt to your needs.

The large number of developers and supportive service providers to ensure the safe operation of medium.

Open formats and open standards are the only way information can be preserved for the future.

The municipal government will continue to rely on open source.

Amen. Any talk about GNU/Linux not making it on the desktop is FUD. In the real world GNU/Linux works well.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.

4 Responses to “More than a Decade of GNU/Linux at Schwäbisch Hall, Germany”

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1 Lord Eron Mar 2nd, 2012 at 6:37 pm

Anecdotal evidence is FUD.
2 kozmcrae Mar 2nd, 2012 at 8:46 pm

Evidence for what is fear, uncertainty and doubt? Did you notice that sentence doesn’t make any sense at all?
3 Robert Pogson Mar 3rd, 2012 at 12:06 am

Lord Eron wrote, “Anecdotal evidence is FUD”.

No. It’s not. An anecdote is someone’s recollection of some event. It could be truth, falsity or perhaps FUD.
4 Bob Parker Mar 3rd, 2012 at 1:14 pm

Lord Eron wrote, “Anecdotal evidence is FUD”.

But let’s not forget that, at the end of the month Lord Eron will be issued his food stamps from Microsoft!