Re:Ubuntu and open source help the City of Munich save millions
by alkonaut on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @03:46PM
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I think the same argument holds for OO vs MS Office as well. They are much closer than Gimp/PS obviously, but for power users they aren't even close to interchangeable.
A good middle ground would be migrating the 95 or 99% who are "casual" users to open source, but you'd then have a heterogeneous system, which isn't ideal. VM's could be used to have all-Linux desktops and still provide users of win-only software with what they need.
My point is: the big savings are in the 95% but the big cost is for migrating the last 5%.
A good middle ground would be migrating the 95 or 99% who are "casual" users to open source, but you'd then have a heterogeneous system, which isn't ideal. VM's could be used to have all-Linux desktops and still provide users of win-only software with what they need.
My point is: the big savings are in the 95% but the big cost is for migrating the last 5%.