Robert Pogson

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Daily Archives / Sunday, October 7, 2012

  • Oct 07 / 2012
  • 14
technology

Explosion of Interest in GNU/Linux at Distrowatch.com

Distrowatch is a popular site. Anyone who wants to compare distros or quickly check what various distros are doing should waste a bit of time there.

My findings today?

Amazing. The last week saw the number of distros with 1000 or more hits per day increase from 9 to 15 compared to the last month. What happened is that the total hits/day for the top 100 distros increased 9%, but the hits/day for the top 15 increased 20%. This means the world is becoming more focussed on the popular distros. A consolidation of distros is happening.

This is as it should be. The world can make its own software but the world does not need hundreds of distros. Eventually we should see a decrease in the number of distros with only the most popular and the most valuable special-purpose distros surviving.

Also unavoidable is the conclusion that interest in GNU/Linux is still growing rapidly. All this FUD about the death of GNU/Linux on the desktop is rather silly. What business would not be celebrating 10-20% growth in activity per month?

  • Oct 07 / 2012
  • 5
technology

Report on LiMux to Munich City Council 2012-03-21

I don’t read German but via Google Translate I can see things went reasonably well and are predicted to continue

see Controlling report LiMux
The period 2010 to 2012
.

preliminary as of 03.23.2012 (with estimates of internal staff costs)

project Budget
and
costs
TOTAL (as of 31.12.2011) Year 2011 disc
Year 2011 disc

consumption
cumulated
total

share
consumed
total center
plan
share in 2011
consumption 2011 to
deadline
share consumption
to plan 2011
other periods services
License costs 66.913€ 71.151€ 106% 1.693€ 5.931€ 350%
application Migration 900.000€ 683.630€ 76% 437.500€ 242.409€ 55% 16.897€
Conversion Forms / Macros 3.961.382€ 3.954.529€ 100% 901.250€ 873.846€ 97% 46.194€
Training costs (external) 2.301.189€ 1.675.047€ 73% 197.338€ 75.647€ 38%
External personnel costs 5.860.072€ 3.195.325€ 55% 1.035.500€ 1.052.536€ 102% 20.811€
Cost of the project management 120.000€ 77.030€ 64% 15.000€ 8.109€ 54%
investment costs 79.407€ 40.045€ 50% 39.362 € 0%
optimizing costs 2.615.529€ 2.077.638€ 79% 1.595.000€ 1.062.158€ 67% 108.122€
Total (without spending
internal staff costs)
11.774.395€ 15.904.492€ 74% 3.320.637€ 4.222.643€ 79% 192.024€
Internal personnel costs
(POR)
2.200.000 € 2.200.000 100%
Internal personnel costs
(Project)
2.803.413€ 581.800€ 21% 706.793 € 540.000 € 76%
22,251 training days days 2232 days
total internal (Staff costs)
2.781.800€ 5.003.413€ 56% 540.000€ 706.793€ 76%
TOTAL: 20.907.905€ 14.556.195€ 70% 3.860.637€ 4.929.436 € 78% 192.024€

They still have to spend a few million but it looks as though the budget will be balanced:
“Conclusion – Although the LiMux migration of the City takes very long and straight in the early years and progress was very slow, it can now already be considered a success, because with over 10,000 clients migrated base (as of March 2012), a largely completed office migration and other significant results as the software Wollmux or much improved or newly introduced processes such request, change and Test Management has achieved a great deal. And, in compliance, the cost budget.”

UPDATE Embedded in the PDF, I found this:
“creator …
Wolfgang M. Bartsch”

According to Linkdin:
“Wolfgang M. Bartsch’s Overview

Current
Managing Consultant at IABG mbH
Past
Partner at GlobalFinance Beratungs AG
Co-Founder at Credigy
Manager Technical Operations and Networks at AOL /CompuServe”

I think that speaks to his credentials.