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No Microsoft, open source software really is cheaper, insists Munich

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 6 comments
ZDNet; By Nick Heath
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The city of Munich has hit back at Microsoft in a row over whether the city's plan to use open-source software is cheaper than using Microsoft's products. The city is currently migrating 13,000 computers from Windows NT 4 and Microsoft Office 97 to a custom build of Ubuntu and OpenOffice as part of its 'LiMux' project. A further 2,000 computers will stay on Windows but are being switched to OpenOffice. The move began in 2004 and will be completed in the autumn of this year.

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the lengths to which Microsoft fanbois, and indeed Microsoft itself, will go to justify staying with Windows, and none of the justifications seem to actually address the problem Munich was trying to solve.
@tracyanne: But those justifications do try to address the growing problem that Microsoft is having to contend with. They're losing mindshare. I expect to see more of these dubious studies to crop up in an attempt to convince people to stick with Microsoft products.
Microsoft cash cow == Windows + Microsoft Office

What happens when Microsoft Office no longer requires Windows?
> What happens when Microsoft Office no longer requires Windows?

My guess would be that a whole bunch of Office tie in programs also get ported to Linux, and Linux corporate usage explodes.
Not to mention the threat of a wave of 'innovative' malware.

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