Spain's Extremadura Starts Move To GNU/Linux, Open Source

jrepin writes "The government of Spain's autonomous region of Extremadura has begun the switch to open source of it desktop PCs. The government expects the majority of its 40,000 PCs to be migrated this year, the region's CIO Theodomir Cayetano announced on 18 April. Extremadura estimates that the move to open source will help save 30 million euro per year. Extremadura in 2012 completed the inventory of all the software applications and computers used by its civil servants. It also tailored a Linux distribution, Sysgobex, to meet the majority of requirements of government tasks. It has already migrated to open source some 150 PCs at several ministries, including those for Development, Culture and Employment."

I blame...

[Anonymous Coward]

... Ballmer: he stopped putting money into getting the facts campaigns. Without them, how else can an autonomous region survive?

Re:The expense isn't the license, it's support

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:web applications

[ozmanjusri]

What is a deltic?

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Re:The expense isn't the license, it's support

[Mike Frett]

Windows 7 support will end soon, so security patches will end, forcing an upgrade. If you can't understand that, then I feel sorry for you. How old the system is? Linux isn't Windows, Linux PCs don't have slowdowns like Windows PCs do. A Linux PC is just as fast and snappy years later. You are a Windows user, otherwise you would know these things. It's easy to pick you guys out of a crowd.