[plug] Munich succeeds

[Alexander Hartner]

/"Mayor Ude reported today that the city of Munich has saved EUR4
million so far
<http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.golem.de%2Fnews%2Fob-christian-ude-muenchen-spart-mit-limux-geld-und-hat-weniger-stoerungen-1203-90821.html>
(Google translation of German original
<http://www.golem.de/news/ob-christian-ude-muenchen-spart-mit-limux-geld-und-hat-weniger-stoerungen-1203-90821.html>)
by switching its IT infrastructure from Windows NT and Office to Linux
and OpenOffice <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limux>. At the same time,
the number of trouble tickets decreased from 70 to 46 per month. Savings
were EUR2.8M from software licensing and EUR1.2M from hardware because
demands are lower for Linux compared to Windows 7."/

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/03/29/0025239/munich-has-saved-4m-so-far-after-switch-to-linux

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