[Liverpool] Biggest official move into Open Source/Free Software? Ever?

[Bob Ham]

On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 09:20 +0000, Bob Ham wrote:

> The city of Munich has mandated a switch to Linux.

I just saw this post on slashdot which seems timely:

"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."

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/03/29/0025239/munich-has-saved-4m-so-far-after-switch-to-linux


Sweet :-)

-- 
Bob Ham <rah at bash.sh>
Diaspora: rah at pod.settrans.net

for (;;) { ++pancakes; }
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/liverpool/attachments/20120329/00e21b1c/attachment.pgp>