The jump to open source has meant a saving for the city of Munich, Germany, of 4 million euros, more than a third of its budget directed to information technologies.
With this, they will no longer have to pay for the 15.000 "Microsoft Office" licenses or the 7.500 "Microsoft Windows" licenses, in addition to avoiding the purchase, necessary to meet the requirements of the current versions of "Windows", of 7.500 computers.
If a Windows update had been approved, the costs, between licenses and new hardware, would have been 15,52 million euros.
Fuck…..
Source: News3D
Now they have more money to spend on dinners and parties :), for things like that I don't care what they save, what they save on one side they squander on another.
Everybody needs dinner hahahaha
These Germans do know 🙂
Free Software RULES !!! 😉
What comes to mind is why the world does not react, if these Germans save so much money, why the hell do I have to pay for an OS if there is an excellent one and Free….?
Because of the fear of using something new, there is a lot of crap.
As long as the principle of technological neutrality continues to be upheld as the guiding force for contracting service platforms in the Administration, this good example is nothing more than a small tree in the Amazon. A shame
Currently I reside in the Baltic and it is very common to find Gnu / Linux in government buildings, for example, the library I attend regularly uses custom Debian (with Gnome 2, LibreOffice, Pidgin, Chromioum) in the internet room. The store where I am going to print has computers with Windows XP and OpenOffice for the public and the clerks use Ubuntu to manage the business. The first time I was amused by the image of people in the student library using Debian naturally; spending time on facebook, messenger, etc., forgetting your tasks 😉 it's all a matter of getting used to.
I mean that it is something cultural and economic, the Baltic countries are nations with little purchasing power and I think they know better how to distinguish what their interests are, where to spend money, and which are those of large multinationals. Something that happens infrequently in central Europe, everything serves the interests of large corporations. Hence, Microsoft has agreements with governments.