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
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