I answered a posting from Ernst W. Winter:
Yes sounds good. How did the city of Munich change 14,000 PC to OOo?
with a somewhat cursory "I don't know" but the question piqued my interest. A few minutes' Googling came up with the answer: It didn't. Reports (e.g., at http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/limux-where-the-munich-linux-revolution-is-today.html) show that only 80% of the city's 14,000 PCs will have been changed to open source by 2012 - that's EIGHT YEARS after the project was given the green light. To be fair, Oo was only a small part of the changeover, which involved an upfront cost of €13 million for LiMux, a special version of Linux. The council says that's €2 million MORE than it would have cost to upgrade from Windows NT4 to XP, but their point wasn't short-term financial saving -- they were more concerned about being tied to a single supplier. While a city council can apparently afford to spend this time and taxpayer's money changing to open source, no corporate CFO would even consider it. P. -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***
