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Verizon Switches Programmers to Linux

Posted by timothy on from the these-numbers-need-some-looking-at dept.

wackysootroom writes: "According to this article at News.com, Verizon saved $6 million in equipment costs by switching its programmers from UNIX and Windows workstations to Linux workstations running OpenOffice. The article says that the average cost per desktop workstation was cut from $22,000 to $3,000." jeffmurphy noted the same story, and wonders "What kind of (Windows) desktops were they buying previously at an average cost of $22k? It seems like software alone wouldn't account for that big of a cut."

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  1. Re:first post! by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Slashdot is so slow today, it's been a half and hour now and the modbots haven't touched this "first post."

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  2. Re:first post! by mustangsal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashdot has been Slashdotted ?

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  3. Re:first post! by biohazard99 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was just able to get back in to /., something must have craped out in the exodus datacenter or VA forgot to/couldn't pay the bandwidth bill for the month

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