Nominating the Scalix web interface as a replacement for Outlook proved to be an ill-advised choice:

Humans are creatures of habit and like to stick with the things they know, if only for convenience. Every software migration will produce a certain percentage of employees who refuse to adopt anything new.

The Canton's IT director probably felt safe because of an internal staff survey: The H's associates at heise open were told by a project-related source that 80% of the affected Cantonal staff were happy with the new environment, 10% complained about various teething troubles, and "only" 10% were entirely unhappy. However, that 10% amounted to more than 100 employees – and they are the ones who shouted the loudest. The disgruntled staff reportedly even created their own home page – now no longer available – for letting off steam.

A number of custom applications couldn't readily be replaced with Linux solutions. Then there were problems with the Konsul database Solothurn uses for processing government council decisions. Because the existing Windows data couldn't simply be migrated, the Ambassador project was chosen to provide the required interoperability with programs such as OpenOffice. However, although now completed, the introduction of Ambassador was postponed until the end of 2010 to fix some performance issues. The dependency on Konsul meant that none of the government council members used a Linux system.

The dependency on Konsul meant that none of the government council members used a Linux system.

Solothurn: Problems exaggerated

On our demand, said Kurt Bader, head of the office responsible for the migration of computer science and Organisation (AIO) that it currently only give a bigger problem, and there in the webmail client, Scalix. It lacks a task management in the program. This was promised by Scalix for March 2010 but has not yet been delivered. In addition, there are some there for the user to the "convenience functions" that still have the program. Otherwise, the client lacked nothing, even web-based games is that it ultimately does not matter.

Correctly is an indication of the newspaper article that the introduction of Ambassador has been postponed to 01/01/2011. Although the program was already at 1.4. well advanced, but still had the speed to be desired, so that it was not accepted by users. Ambassador is a comprehensive system that are coupled to the numerous other specialized applications. It was written on behalf of the AIO of the English company Zylog. It solves the CM from the Swiss Consul-developed computer science. Since CM-computer science would develop contrary to initial promises no Linux version of consul, received the AIO and had the source code of the renamed Zylog Ambassador in software ported to Java.

The operating system relies on Solothurn Univention Linux. Support for the recourse to a local company, but there are also direct contacts with Univention. About 800 of the 1300 simultaneously operating users of the Canton of work daily with the Linux Desktop, (excluding the missing Webmail functions) to the satisfaction of users, such as Kurt Bader says. Excluded from the migration, the courts - not for technical reasons, but because users were uncompromising in MS Outlook.

Some users continue to make the migration resistance - and this was greatly exaggerated in the article of the Solothurn newspaper. It consisted in the alleged problems with printing only a temporary problem that occurred after the update of VMWare server, running the virtualized CUPS server, three weeks ago and was corrected with a change in attitude in the VMWare server. Overall, according to the chief officer, the system extremely stable and low maintenance. Even now saves about managing a 1.5 million francs per year, and have been for years. The required expertise of immigration opponents, according to Kurt Bader is not likely to bring very much new. The final migration date Ambassador to stand on the 01/01/2011, and with the savings, there is an additional argument for the migration. The fact that the policy still has not decided otherwise seems currently unlikely, at least the Government still shows a favorable attitude to the project.

Schiessl refused to make a comparison: "We do not have a goal to compare total cost of ownership. Microsoft stopped supporting NT 4.0, so we must migrate."

"We have a very narrow interpretation," Abbing said of patentable software.

Stallman said he supported the movement, and told iTnews that the European Patent Office was lobbying for software patents in Australia.

"We're here at the World Computer Congress and what I've discovered is that the European Patent Office is here to campaign in favour of software patents in Australia," he said.

"You can be sure that if Australia allows software patents, almost all the patents will belong to foreigners and will give them the opportunity to sue Australians.

"There's no problem that requires a solution with anything like software patents. Without software patents ... neither of us would get sued by the various patent troll companies whose sole business is collecting patents so that they could go threaten people."

The operating system relies on Solothurn Univention Linux.

combuster: Najveca greska IT-ovaca je sto Linux posmatraju kroz distroe. Pa kazu udruzite snage, napravite jedan distro i sve ce biti bolje. Ogromna, pocetnicka greska.

Palma: A kroz šta da posmatram Linux? Kroz kernel? Pa da idem unaokolo i vičem "wow, što je dobar ovaj novi kernel"? :) Znaš i sam da to ne biva, korisnici posmatraju Linux kroz distribuciju i tako je oduvek bilo.

A propo te ogromne, početničke greške. Kažeš da je dobro što postoji hiljadu distribucia?

combuster: Pa Fedora resi da dozvoli userima da instaliraju pakete bez prethodne elevacije privilegija.

Nedeljko: Sinoć mi je drugar koji koristi fedoru objasnio da je to probao, ali da yum pokrenut pod user privilegijama instalira pakete koje onda može da koristi samo taj user, što je pravilno.

yum pokrenut pod user privilegijama instalira pakete koje onda može da koristi samo taj user, što je pravilno.

Drzavni projekti su UPRAVO poslednja stvar koju treba koristiti kao primer za bilo sta u smislu tehnoloskog napretka.
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Tako isto i sa IT projektima... manite se drzave/drzava... to je poslednje mesto na kojem se moze naci nesto dobro i kvalitetno.

VladimirCDT
Jer svako ko koristi Linux kao desktop resenje,

Naime, da su poreski obveznici u Svajcarskoj bar malo edukovani, znali bi i prepoznali bi prevaru

VladimirCDT: Dobro, ocigledno je to u Svajcarskoj samo gomila bullshita....

Ivan Dimkovic: To bi bilo <1% ljudi, dakle? :) Bilo je jace od mene a ipak je ovo advocacy :)

combuster: Nek se skupi tih nekoliko miliona Linux korisnika koji predstavljaju tih <1% pa neka tuze te idiote zbog blacenja brenda :D

nemesis: :)
mozda je pravi put migracije bio da se prvo serveri i ne-korisnichke mashine zamene drugom platformom
pa polako jedan po jedan segment .. a za primanje novih ljudi bude uslov recimo linux pismenost da se tako
izrazim ... :)

Nenad Andrić: U slučaju da je uslov za posao linux pismenost, ona brojka od 1% bi se brzo povećala. Mislim da je savldavanje linuxa mala žrtva u poredjenju sa poslom u državnoj administraciji evropske zemlje