Munich finds Linux migration cost less than HP's analysis claims

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Submission + - Munich finds Linux migration cost less than HP's analysis claims (h-online.com)

Submitted by Ja'Achan on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @05:23AM

Ja'Achan writes: Microsoft asked HP to analyse Munich's Linux migration, and HP found that the migration to Linux cost €60.6M, where if they had remained with Microsoft, it had only cost €17M. Now, Munich's City Council has objected against this analysis, which, among other assumed that Linux and Windows systems have "roughly the same hardware requirements". They found that the cost of migration was €23M, where if they had stayed with Microsoft, it would have cost them €34M.

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