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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."
"trendy" modern distros...actually run slower under Linux
They're talking about servers.
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Compared to Windows NT??? Nice guys, lol. And of course, they decided to add in the cost of upgrading their OS every 3-4 years for the next 10 years in the "costs saved already". Nice PR piece, and that is some seriously stretching of the truth. Of course, they didn't include the cost of retraining and productivity lost over the next 10 years, including any new hires they have to make that don't know how to use linux/OOo, and have to be trained or being able to select from a smaller employment pool. They may or may not save money, but this article is full of crap, especially their help desk calls going down. Really? How'd you do that? Most likely they don't route questions about the new stuff to the help desk, and instead route them somewhere else where they are getting inundated.