LiMux to save €11Million for the city of Munich

The city of Munich started, on year 2004, the LiMux project, its particular distribution of Linux, in order to achieve a fully opensource desktop infrastructure.

Switching from Windows to Linux, in particular to LiMux,  the city of Munich has saved over €11 million ($14.3 million) to date compared to the costs of a similar migration to a more modern Microsoft-based IT infrastructure.

The total cost was calculated taking into account several factors as:

- Upgrade costs saved taking into account migration from Windows 2000 to Windows 7

- Upgrade costs saved taking into account hardware upgrade that was avoided

- Software licenses savings

Check the complete story on "ItWorld":

http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/321474/switching-linux-saves-munich-over-11-million