Munich replaces proprietary infrastructure software with open source, without reviving the LiMux Linux desktop
Munich's chief digital officer, Dr. Laura Dornheim, said at Open Source Summit Europe in Prague that the city is returning to open-source software, but only for infrastructure and not for desktops. The city is replacing VMware with Proxmox, Jira and Confluence with OpenProject and XWiki, and adopting PostgreSQL as an alternative to Oracle databases. The infrastructure and collaboration migrations are expected to save about €1.5 million or more a year. Dornheim attributed the earlier abandonment of the LiMux desktop (about 14,800 desktops by 2013, reversed by a 2017 council vote) to politics, not technical failure. The article is strategy and business news with no security incident, vulnerability or threat activity.
Detalhes técnicos
- Migrations: VMware to Proxmox, Jira/Confluence to OpenProject/XWiki, Oracle to PostgreSQL.
- Munich set up an Open Source Program Office in 2024 and follows a "public money, public code" principle.
- Municipal software shared with other cities includes DAVe (traffic data analysis, adopted by Wolfsburg) and MUCGPT (an LLM-based municipal AI assistant).
- Dornheim noted that a move to Azure without sufficient GDPR compliance assurances from Microsoft would force the city to scrutinize who could use each tool.
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Munich replaces proprietary infrastructure software with open source, without reviving the LiMux Linux desktop
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Munich's chief digital officer, Dr. Laura Dornheim, said at Open Source Summit Europe in Prague that the city is returning to open-source software, but only for infrastructure and not for desktops. The city is replacing VMware with Proxmox, Jira and Confluence with OpenProject and XWiki, and adopting PostgreSQL as an alternative to Oracle databases. The infrastructure and collaboration migrations are expected to save about €1.5 million or more a year. Dornheim attributed the earlier abandonment of the LiMux desktop (about 14,800 desktops by 2013, reversed by a 2017 council vote) to politics, not technical failure. The article is strategy and business news with no security incident, vulnerability or threat activity.
Technical Details
- Migrations: VMware to Proxmox, Jira/Confluence to OpenProject/XWiki, Oracle to PostgreSQL.
- Munich set up an Open Source Program Office in 2024 and follows a "public money, public code" principle.
- Municipal software shared with other cities includes DAVe (traffic data analysis, adopted by Wolfsburg) and MUCGPT (an LLM-based municipal AI assistant).
- Dornheim noted that a move to Azure without sufficient GDPR compliance assurances from Microsoft would force the city to scrutinize who could use each tool.