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Munich Has Saved €4M So Far After Switch To Linux

Posted by Soulskill on from the gonna-be-a-good-oktoberfest-this-year dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Does that include cost of training and transiti by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Also in the bill were included training costs and costs of migration" FTFA

  2. Re:Not Surprised by Barbara,+not+Barbie · · Score: 5, Informative

    "trendy" modern distros...actually run slower under Linux

    They're talking about servers.

    Don't be silly - they're talking desktop users switching from Windows+Office to Linux+OpenOffice - 14,000 PCs and laptops. Since when does anyone run OpenOffice on a server?

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  3. Re:Not Surprised by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I do. OpenOffice runs headless as part of a document conversion service, main use is to convert the various MS Office documents to pdf.

  4. Re:Not Surprised by ozmanjusri · · Score: 5, Informative
    But that's not what Munich is doing.

    They're using a LiMux, a customised version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with KDE3.5. On any modern hardware, it'll be very responsive.

    Read Florian Maier's presentation. Warning, PDF: https://www.desktopsummit.org/sites/www.desktopsummit.org/files/DS2011_LiMux_Desktop_Retrospective_2011-08-08.pdf

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