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Switch to open source successfully completed, city of Munich says | PCWorld
www.pcworld.com/article/2079800/switch-to-open-source-successfully-completed-city-of-munich-says.html, posted 2013 by peter in business free linux opensource software
As of November last year, the city saved more than €11.7 million (US$16.1 million) because of the switch. More recent figures were not immediately available, but cost savings were not the only goal of the operation. It was also done to be less dependent on manufacturers, product cycles and proprietary OSes, the council said Thursday.