After the statistics released by Microsoft and HP that the city of Monaco would have spent more money by switching to Linux and LibreOffice rather than staying on Windows and Microsoft Office, the same town in the German city has responded to the accusations of the two giants showing actual figures of the transition to open source.
The municipal government of the city of Monaco of Bavaria, as has been known for a long time, has transferred in its entirety from 2004 to present its information architecture going from closed systems such as Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to open solutions like Linux ( using a distro tailored called LiMux based on Ubuntu and KDE) and OpenOffice, with a view of the policy of "economic austerity" for years taken from Germany.
Regarding this matter, a great deal of fuss had aroused a range of statistics published by a study conducted by HP and Microsoft's argument that the municipality of Monaco of Bavaria had spent some six times more in the transition to open source solutions than that stay on closed platform Windows.
The data collected by the two companies, published only partially because of the controversy stirred, showed that all had been spent € 61 million in the project LiMux and the consequent migration of computer facilities in this system, compared to € 17 million budgeted instead updating of platforms to new releases of Windows and Microsoft Office.
These analyzes had already been widely criticized, as the 17 million cost to upgrade would be calculated from HP for an upgrade from Windows NT 4 to Windows XP and Office 2000 and Office 2003, and not to the most recent ( and expensive) Windows 7 and Office 2010.
Until now, no comment from Bavaria nothing was leaked about, but in recent days the council of the German city has finally decided to respond: in fact, as reported by ZDNet.com, the leaders of the town of Monaco have published data accurate and confirmed that demonstrate how the transition to free software has been an absolutely advantageous in economic terms.
In fact, according to data published by Monaco, the expenditure incurred for the transition to LiMux and OpenOffice would be € 23 million, and not 61 as claimed by HP and Microsoft, and the whole municipal administration would yield a saving of 10 million euro.
According to studies of the Bavarian city, the statistics released by the two companies offer several errors of assessment: first, the number of seats in LiMux past, which were quantified in 12 thousand units in just the first two years of the project, but in reality has been much less for the first few years and then get a passage of only 13 thousand units in 2012, then in a much more gradual.
The number of technicians employed in the advancement of the project LiMux also would be much lower than 1000 employees estimated by HP and Microsoft, not to mention the high cost of the hardware required by Windows than Linux, because not taken at all in consideration by the two companies.
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