Re: The real joke here is...@TheVogon/Richto/AC
The usual TheVogon/Richto/AC lies.
> Estimated by HP at about €30 million.
The HP report was funded by Microsoft and made no reference at all to what Munich actually spent, they just made it up. For example they included costs for replacing computers frequently while, in fact, Munich reused their computers that were running NT. It also ignored the costs of retraining from NT to XP to Vista to Windows 7, and from Office 1997 to 2003, 2007, 2010, ... The report is a complete work of fiction.
> And that's without the cost of the millions IBM spent on the project to develop and maintain Limux
IBM may well have spent many millions developing Linux OS (for example for their mainframes) and their applications for Linux (eg Websphere) but that was supporting their sales of billions and was nothing to do with Munich.
> The Munich quoted cost 'savings' only refer to licensing costs which of course is a only a tiny part of the picture.
Exactly, there were many more savings.
> The fact that they are investigating the options of how to reverse course and are costing it up says it all
There is ONE new deputy mayor that wants to reverse course.
> if Linux really was cheaper it would be being adopted en mass, whereas in reality it hasn't moved over 2% desktop market share ever.
There are now more Linux based personal computing devices then all others combined.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
