Li Mux - Timeline

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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