On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 22:09 +0100, Peter Rodwell wrote: > I answered a posting from Ernst W. Winter: > > > Yes sounds good. How did the city of Munich change 14,000 PC to OOo? > > with a somewhat cursory "I don't know" but the question piqued my interest. > A few minutes' Googling came up with the answer: It didn't. > > Reports (e.g., at > http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/limux-where-the-munich-linux-revolution-is-today.html) > show that only 80% of the city's 14,000 PCs will have been changed to open > source by > 2012 - that's EIGHT YEARS after the project was given the green light. > > To be fair, Oo was only a small part of the changeover, which involved an > upfront > cost of €13 million for LiMux, a special version of Linux. The council says > that's > €2 million MORE than it would have cost to upgrade from Windows NT4 to XP, > but their point wasn't short-term financial saving -- they were more > concerned about > being tied to a single supplier. > > While a city council can apparently afford to spend this time and taxpayer's > money > changing to open source, no corporate CFO would even consider it.
Some have done. Ernie Ball Guitar strings is one famous case. We are small but we did it :-) So I'd say few rather than no CFOs. But we know all that anyway. Personally, I'm quite happy for Windows to act as a giant magnet pulling all the malware away from my company :-). I just checked an e-mail attachment supposedly sent from DHL. .exe file so some Windows malware or other. Do we really want that stuff targeting Linux any sooner than necessary? :-) -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications A new approach to assessment for learning www.theINGOTs.org - 01827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***
