Re:Ubuntu and open source help the City of Munich save millions
by brudgers on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @01:07PM
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The study MicroSoft commissioned from HP put the total cost at about €60 million or between two and three times the costs Munich claims and substantially more than their estimate for using Windows.
That said and even if it's fabricated from whole cloth, the numbers are all chump change in the budget for a city with 1.4 million inhabitants, particularly when the spending is spread over more than a decade. Ten million euros in savings is less than a Euro per inhabitant per year since the project kicked off in 2002. Using Munich's numbers, they could do the entire project every year with a head tax of €25 per year.
€10 million is a lot of money if it's yours. At the scale of a city it's repaving a few streets.
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Microsoft-partly-rele...
That said and even if it's fabricated from whole cloth, the numbers are all chump change in the budget for a city with 1.4 million inhabitants, particularly when the spending is spread over more than a decade. Ten million euros in savings is less than a Euro per inhabitant per year since the project kicked off in 2002. Using Munich's numbers, they could do the entire project every year with a head tax of €25 per year.
€10 million is a lot of money if it's yours. At the scale of a city it's repaving a few streets.