Germany keeps turning its back on linux, this time it's lower saxony

The German state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) is ready to follow in the footsteps of Munich in the migration of thousands of official computers from Linux to Windows, a move just the opposite of what was experienced a few years ago in an attempt to reduce the expenditure.

Lower Saxony follows in the footsteps of Munich and abandons Linux

Heise has reported that the Lower Saxony state tax authority has 13, 000 workstations running OpenSuse, a Linux distribution they adopted in 2006 in an attempt to eliminate costs associated with Windows licenses, although they now want to migrate to a version current Windows, supposedly Windows 10. The official justification is that many of their field workers and phone support services already use Windows, so they are familiar with the Redmond operating system.

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Keep in mind that PCs are running versions 12.2 and 13.2 of OpenSuse, none of which is already supported, so it is necessary to make an update, either to a new version of this distribution or to Linux. According to Lower Saxony's draft budget, 5.9 million euros are allocated for migration in the coming year, with another 7 million euros annually in the following years, as it is not yet clear how many years migration would take.

The return to Windows of both states will cost about 50 million euros in total, including the deployment of 29, 000 Windows-based computers. Munich and Lower Saxony were the children of Linux in conquering the desktop. Finally the marriage has not lasted many years. What do you think of this return to Windows of both German states?

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