The 10 million euro saving seems to have put the costs as solely the costs of
1) Upgrading to Windows 7 at the end of 2011 (lol)
2) Upgrading versions of Office
3) Upgrading PCs to be able to run Windows 7
They assumes all other costs are the same. Which confuses me a bit because they said they had consultants working to develop the underlying OS itself (so wouldn't you save the cost of those consultants if you're buying Windows?). But I don't mean to be begging the question, as there's no real reason to not trust them (but isn't there no real reason not to trust HP by the same token?).
I'm not a huge fan of their numbers, but I guess if they hold up and people are 100% equally productive then it's fine. But really saving 10 million over the course of a 10 yr project for a city government the size of Munich doesn't seem that significant to me.
>You make it sound as if the migration wasn't a success while the original article claims it to be more than successful
Why does it have to be either a failure or more then successful? Why couldn't have just been a completed project that wasn't a huge success or failure. Honestly that the article doesn't mention any issues other then a handwavey "there have been hurdles", doesn't inspire me to think the article is the greatest in the world. But maybe I'm just cynical.
You think metered internet access is a better solution? Seems to align the costs and who pays for them a bit better. So if I'm sitting here watching Netflix 24/7 365 my bill is understandably higher. It'd prolly make me how much I used Netflix but that's understandable.
Any plan where I don't directly pay per byte I download seems destined to run into problems like these - Comcast doesn't want to deal with the increased traffic Netflix is pulling into their network, but really what are there customers paying for but that traffic?
They assumes all other costs are the same. Which confuses me a bit because they said they had consultants working to develop the underlying OS itself (so wouldn't you save the cost of those consultants if you're buying Windows?). But I don't mean to be begging the question, as there's no real reason to not trust them (but isn't there no real reason not to trust HP by the same token?).
Anyway, I can't read German so maybe I missed something. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linux-brings-over-EUR... http://www.ris-muenchen.de/RII2/RII/ris_vorlagen_dokumente.j...
I'm not a huge fan of their numbers, but I guess if they hold up and people are 100% equally productive then it's fine. But really saving 10 million over the course of a 10 yr project for a city government the size of Munich doesn't seem that significant to me.
>You make it sound as if the migration wasn't a success while the original article claims it to be more than successful
Why does it have to be either a failure or more then successful? Why couldn't have just been a completed project that wasn't a huge success or failure. Honestly that the article doesn't mention any issues other then a handwavey "there have been hurdles", doesn't inspire me to think the article is the greatest in the world. But maybe I'm just cynical.