Timeline
- May 28, 2003 - The city council of Munich votes to go ahead with planning. (From the press release: "Until spring 2004, a detailed concept of implementation and migration will be developed. Based on the results of this evaluation, the city council will decide how the migration to Linux will take place.")
- June 16, 2004 - The city council votes 50-29 in favor of migrating and to start an open competitive bidding within months
- August 5, 2004 - The project is temporarily halted, due to legal uncertainties concerning software patents.
- April 28, 2005 - Debian is selected as a platform.
- September 6, 2005 - It is decided that the project needs an additional one year pilot test, and migration slips one year.
- September 22, 2006 - The "soft" migration begins, one year behind original schedule.
- November 2008: 1200 out of 14,000 have migrated to the LiMux environment (9%; March 2008: 1000=7%), in addition 12000 workstations use OpenOffice.org 2 installed on Windows (March 2008: 6000) and more 100% use Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 (March 2008: 90%). 18000 of 21000 macros, templates and forms are changed into Linux-enabled
- 29 May 2008: The related WollMux-software, developed in-house to support personalised templates and forms in office textprocessing, is declared Open Source
- 31 December 2009: The first step, the complete switch to OpenOffice.org enabling the Open Document Format as standard format is done
- June 2010: "More than 3000" are LiMux-workplaces by now. Further 2000 shall migrate in 2010.
- In February 2011 more than 5000 workplaces were based on LiMux.
- In June 2011 more than 6500 workplaces were based on LiMux.
- December 17, 2011: "9000" PCs are LiMux-workplaces now. With this they are 500 workplaces ahead of their goal for 2011.
- March 28, 2012: In response to a request from the CSU the City reported that it has already saved about 4 million euros in licensing costs as well as reduced the number of support calls
- July 2012: About 10,500 LiMux PC-workstations
- November 23, 2012: Report shows that the savings brought in using LiMux environment are over 10 million euros
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