Munich Has Saved €4M So Far After Switch To Linux 370
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."
Now go for another 4 million ... (Score:5, Funny)
Get rid of that office shit and replace with Vim and Emacs. :) :)
Re:Now go for another 4 million ... (Score:5, Funny)
Hell - let's just turn the computers off. That will save millions!
Re:Does that include cost of training and transiti (Score:4, Funny)
ok, you can start by not posting as AC
Then we can start discussing your hatred of monkeys.
Re:Now go for another 4 million ... (Score:5, Funny)
Emacs only costs nothing if your soul is worthless.
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And this is why opensource is superior! (Score:5, Funny)
It has been a desperate struggle for all in the computer business to come up with the least usable software ever! Apple had a good long run with their 1 mouse button because options just give users options. MS for a long time stayed with its tried and tested "crash more often then the stockmarket" while Unix just had to rely on making even the manual an arcane command line.
But then stupid users tried to improve. Apple was forced to accept that with the PC, users could always just buy a multi-buttoned mouse! Can't have that Jobs said and have the word iOS, to get rid of not just right-click but double click in one go.
Aha! MS said, we can beat that, behold, the RIBBON, a beautifull piece of AI that ensures whatever command you want, you won't be able to find it.
Oops, said Linux, we started to lag. Quickly, upgrade the desktops so that whatever one you pick, you get the worsed ideas ever combined in a buddy alpha package!
But unbeknown to all, queitly working away were the OpenOffice people, show casing just how utterly evil you can get with opensource code... TADA! The text editor with NO USER INTERFACE AT ALL! MWAHAHAHAHAA!
Even Nintendo who gave us the handheld you got to move to control the game but hold still to be able to see can't top that.
Re:What window manager? (Score:3, Funny)
Well, games, of course! Windows Solitaire is so much better than the linux versions.