CASH IS WASTED BY LINUX.

Microsoft recently claimed that the city of Munich is gone in favor of Linux software by dumping a lot of money wasted. At the same time, the software giant has refused to provide evidence, if everyone would take the word for it.

Both Microsoft and HP, according to the German city had an error when switching to Linux from Windows calculates that saved millions of Munich. Apparently, Munich claimed that it saved more than $ 14 million to date from Microsoft is angry. Special software giant's total cost of ownership study, which found that Munich would save more than $ 57 million if it had stuck with Microsoft's one of performed.


German weekly Focus, the data was in question, claimed that the software giant Munich instead if staying with Windows XP and Office 2003 for Linux and OpenOffice.org, a good There will fortunate wanted. Microsoft confirmed that Munich's transfer spending all his calculations did not consider a new version of Windows (eg, Windows 7) with a transfer than a decade old Linux version is in transition. In Munich, was stuck with Windows, it does not need any new software.

In the meantime, the report found that 25 percent of desktops are still running Windows, Linux as all applications will be migrated. One of the results of HP employees was leaked to the press, but neither HP nor Microsoft Now it is ready to provide more widely.

Most of the industry experts admitted that they did not understand Microsoft's reasoning, saying that seeing how Windows Deployment Linux can be cheaper than alternatives will be difficult. Perhaps it is because Microsoft did not release details of suspect software giant had some errors in it.

After all, the good old days, being Dev Software is the fabled for marketing purposes only with statistics about the total cost of ownership of Linux print false reports used to.