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Munich Has Saved €4M So Far After Switch To Linux
New submitter Mojo66 writes "Mayor Ude reported today that the city of Munich has saved €4 million so far (Google translation of German original) by switching its IT infrastructure from Windows NT and Office to Linux and OpenOffice. At the same time, the number of trouble tickets decreased from 70 to 46 per month. Savings were €2.8M from software licensing and €1.2M from hardware because demands are lower for Linux compared to Windows 7."
Does that include cost of training and transition? Curious what the cost of the changeover was and how long it will take to recover that investment.
If the change itself is expensive, but the savings of Linux is high, that is a good argument for building with Linux from the outset.
Linux is better, faster, and more stable. Just the savings on support calls alone would be enormous.
On the various computers where I've installed most "trendy" modern distros (ubuntu, etc), they actually run slower under Linux than Windows. Not that linux doesn't have plenty of other advantages, but in my expereince, for out-of-the-box installs, speed isn't one of them. (The incredible sluggishness of nautilus is one of the things that made me reinstall windows on one of my development machines).
Before you go arguing and modding me down, yes, I know this is a single anecdote and there are other counter-examples. I also know I could install a lighter window managers, use a better file manager, etc. But out-of-the box ubuntu, mint, etc, has been slower on my machines than either windows xp or windows 7.
On the various computers where I've installed most "trendy" modern distros (ubuntu, etc), they actually run slower under Linux than Windows.
In what way?
Reduced CPU speed? Slower network access? How does your OS reduce the speed of your hardware? Do you have any benchmarks showing comparative speed?
(The incredible sluggishness of nautilus is one of the things that made me reinstall windows on one of my development machines).
You're a developer and you changed your entire OS because you couldn't change the settings to speed up a file manager? (hint: Nautilus shows thumbnails and previews audio). Please tell/warn us which projects you're working on!
Don't be fanboi, fanbois suck.
The translation is a bit hard to read, but I can't believe any organization only has 70 trouble tickets in a month for 7,500 machines, regardless of the OS that is running.