So they are basically saying “Deploying OpenOffice alone cost us 93% of 500€/user/year as opposed to 200€ for MS Office? That is about the biggest admission of “we don’t know how to do installation management for our IT” that I have ever heard.
Cheers, Mirko. > On 20 Aug 2015, at 07:56, Matthias Kirschner <[email protected]> wrote: > > You probably saw this article already > http://www.zdnet.com/article/huge-savings-prompt-italian-city-to-dump-openoffice-for-microsoft-after-four-years/?tag=nl.e552&s_cid=e552&ttag=e552&ftag=TRE3e6936e > > First of all I think it makes no sense to talk about ownership when you > talk about services. You can say total cost of operations. But that is > different than when you own something. > > My second question (I hope some Italian speakers can clarify): Do they > really compare the costs for running Microsoft Office and Apache > OpenOffice in parallel with just running Microsoft Office?? -- Mirko Boehm | [email protected] | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellow, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist Request a meeting: https://doodle.com/mirkoboehm _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
