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<i>"Mayor Ude reported today that <a
href="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">the
city of Munich has saved €4 million so far</a> (Google
translation of <a
href="http://www.golem.de/news/ob-christian-ude-muenchen-spart-mit-limux-geld-und-hat-weniger-stoerungen-1203-90821.html">German
original</a>) by switching its IT infrastructure from Windows NT
and Office <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limux">to Linux
and OpenOffice</a>. At the same time, the number of trouble
tickets decreased from 70 to 46 per month. Savings were €2.8M from
software licensing and €1.2M from hardware because demands are
lower for Linux compared to Windows 7."</i><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/03/29/0025239/munich-has-saved-4m-so-far-after-switch-to-linux">http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/03/29/0025239/munich-has-saved-4m-so-far-after-switch-to-linux</a><br>
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