<story><title>Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and return to Windows</title><url>http://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-pioneer-munich-poised-to-ditch-open-source-and-return-to-windows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Merem</author><text>Hm..&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;At the time the report was released, the FSFE questioned why Accenture was commissioned to co-author a report assessing the use of Microsoft software, when the consultancy runs a joint venture with Microsoft called Avanade, which helps businesses implement Microsoft technologies. For its part, Accenture said it has an &amp;quot;independent view of the technology landscape&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;At the time Munich began the move to LiMux in 2004 it was one of the largest organizations to reject Windows, and Microsoft took the city&amp;#x27;s leaving so seriously that then CEO Steve Ballmer flew to Munich to meet the mayor. More recently, Microsoft last year moved its German company headquarters to Munich.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Everything else that is written there points towards it making no sense to switch back to Windows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frik</author><text>Lot&amp;#x27;s of comments (1600) on Heise: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.heise.de&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;heise-online&amp;#x2F;News-Kommentare&amp;#x2F;Von-Linux-zurueck-zu-Microsoft-Schwarz-Rot-in-Muenchen-will-LiMux-rauswerfen&amp;#x2F;forum-374068&amp;#x2F;comment&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.heise.de&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;heise-online&amp;#x2F;News-Kommentare&amp;#x2F;Von-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Several comments mention &amp;quot;läuft wie geschmiert&amp;quot; which can be translated as mobbed-up &amp;#x2F; bribed.</text></comment>
<story><title>Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and return to Windows</title><url>http://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-pioneer-munich-poised-to-ditch-open-source-and-return-to-windows/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Merem</author><text>Hm..&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;At the time the report was released, the FSFE questioned why Accenture was commissioned to co-author a report assessing the use of Microsoft software, when the consultancy runs a joint venture with Microsoft called Avanade, which helps businesses implement Microsoft technologies. For its part, Accenture said it has an &amp;quot;independent view of the technology landscape&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;At the time Munich began the move to LiMux in 2004 it was one of the largest organizations to reject Windows, and Microsoft took the city&amp;#x27;s leaving so seriously that then CEO Steve Ballmer flew to Munich to meet the mayor. More recently, Microsoft last year moved its German company headquarters to Munich.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Everything else that is written there points towards it making no sense to switch back to Windows.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickpsecurity</author><text>Accenture is an unbiased source in this. They will give you the pro&amp;#x27;s and con&amp;#x27;s of a number of high-margin products from Microsoft. You&amp;#x27;ll know which of them is best for you. You will not find them slanted enough to tell you to port your infrastructure to Windows 2012 on dedicated servers over  instances of your current 2003 Servers running on Windows 2012 with HyperV. They wouldn&amp;#x27;t push that over a cost-efficient implementation of your whole business in Azure. They&amp;#x27;ll let you run your conferences on Surface computers with a Powerpoint just as quickly as Powerpoint on desktops with Windows 10 Enterprise.&lt;p&gt;Accenture will get you the answers Microsoft needs regardless of your situation. You can count on it.</text></comment>