German Police says Good Bye to Microsoft Products
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23. noviembre 2007
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After the German Bundesrechnungshof has released a paper
critizising
the extensive and expensive use of Windows in public services,
the German Police Trade Union has demanded that the failed police software
project POLIKS shall be discontinued and all installations of
the
Windows operating system of Microsoft be replaced with Linux.
Issues with the new system had been raised for a long time already. It
takes half an hour and longer to record a single case, which had been
done within a couple of minutes using the paper based approach. This half
hour is of course time that the person reporting the incident will have
to wait.
Also, the system has experienced 50 hours of downtime for the year,
which is a rather low availability rate as opposed to services normally
offered by Open Source systems.
The Police Union representatives suggest that the saved license fees
could be used for the christmas gratifications for the police officers.
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