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Japan To Do Payroll On Linux
strannik writes "Yahoo/Reuters is reporting that the The Japanese Government will use Linux for it's payroll system. Fujitsu LTD, IBM Japan LTD and OKI Electronic Industry Co. will develop the system by March of 2004. The new system is expected to halve operating costs (to about 350 Billion Yen a year)."
They forgot to add in the costs of teaching employees how to use the new Linux system, retraining administrators and help desk employees to support the software and how in the long run it would be cheaper to just buy new software every year.
Not only that, they forgot what would happen if the community stopped support of Linux overnight, or where would they go if Linux went out of business next year?
In the end, will it really save money? I think the anser is clear.
If I missed one of the points, please correct me. I hope this becomes a huge success and only encourages other governments to adopt open-source software.
If Japan's running communist open source software, does this mean they're going to abolish democracy in Japan soon?
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