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The 10 million euro saving seems to have put the costs as solely the costs of 1) Upgrading to Windows 7 at the end of 2011 (lol) 2) Upgrading versions of Office

The 10 million euro saving seems to have put the costs as solely the costs of 1) Upgrading to Windows 7 at the end of 2011 (lol) 2) Upgrading versions of Office 3) Upgrading PCs to be able to run Windows 7 They assumes all other costs are the same. Which confuses me a bit because they said they had consultants working to develop the underlying OS itself (so wouldn't you save the cost of those consultants if you're buying Windows?). But I don't mean to be begging the question, as there's no real reason to not trust them (but isn't there no real reason not to trust HP by the same token?). Anyway, I can't read German so maybe I missed something. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linux-brings-over-EUR10-million-savings-for-Munich-1755802.html http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linux-brings-over-EUR... http://www.ris-muenchen.de/RII2/RII/ris_vorlagen_dokumente.jsp?risid=2773053 http://www.ris-muenchen.de/RII2/RII/ris_vorlagen_dokumente.j... I'm not a huge fan of their numbers, but I guess if they hold up and people are 100% equally productive then it's fine. But really saving 10 million over the course of a 10 yr project for a city government the size of Munich doesn't seem that significant to me. >You make it sound as if the migration wasn't a success while the original article claims it to be more than successful Why does it have to be either a failure or more then successful? Why couldn't have just been a completed project that wasn't a huge success or failure. Honestly that the article doesn't mention any issues other then a handwavey "there have been hurdles", doesn't inspire me to think the article is the greatest in the world. But maybe I'm just cynical.

danford 12y ago
>they said they had consultants working to develop the underlying OS itself I think a lot of people make the assumption that just because you're running windows you're not going to run into any road blocks that require hiring developers to extend this or that or create a plugin here or there. Of course you can't extend the windows OS, and why would you want to? Probably to optimize something. Why would you want to optimize something? Probably to make things run better. Why would you want things to run better? Probably because it saves money. So for all we know the development on LiMux may have been what saved them the money.

danford 12y ago

>they said they had consultants working to develop the underlying OS itself I think a lot of people make the assumption that just because you're running windows you're not going to run into any road blocks that require hiring developers to extend this or that or create a plugin here or there. Of course you can't extend the windows OS, and why would you want to? Probably to optimize something. Why would you want to optimize something? Probably to make things run better. Why would you want things to run better? Probably because it saves money. So for all we know the development on LiMux may have been what saved them the money.