Linux in Munich: 'No compelling technical reason to return to Windows,' says city's IT chief

Schneider said Munich had solved compatibility problems related to running line-of-business software on LiMux and swappping documents with outside organizations.

Schneider echoed the findings of an earlier report by consultants Accenture and arf, that the problems with IT at the council were related to the fragmented structure of the city's IT management, which falls under both the central IT@M and local IT departments.

For the move to save money overall, using Windows would need to be considerably more effective as an operating system, because past estimates have put the price of Munich returning to Windows at more than €17m, not including software licensing and new infrastructure costs.