Windows 10 switchover will cost Linux champion Munich €50m
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Windows 10 switchover will cost Linux champion Munich €50m
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Re: Windows 10 switchover will cost Linux champion Munich €50m
#2> Today the CSU political party, which has a long track record of opposition to LiMux, is also part of the ruling coalition in Munich. It was this coalition of CSU and SPD politicians that put forward the proposals to switch back to Windows 10 earlier this year.
How do you say "pork" in German?
Re: Windows 10 switchover will cost Linux champion Munich €50m
#3This seems semi-reasonable over 29000 systems.
The reality is enterprise support for linux systems is the one variable i don't really see discussed here. This is Microsoft's bread and butter for a reason. Organizations prefer an easy upfront cost rather than complex, support intensive solutions.
Re: Windows 10 switchover will cost Linux champion Munich €50m
#4This seems semi-reasonable over 29000 systems. The reality is enterprise support for linux systems is the one variable i don't really see discussed here. This is Microsoft's bread and butter for a reason. Organizations prefer an easy upfront cost rather than complex, support intensive solutions.
I'm not sure the level of support needed for Windows systems is much different to that of Linux. There will be an associated cost in both cases.
Re: Windows 10 switchover will cost Linux champion Munich €50m
#5The article didn't mention what the yearly Windows licensing costs would be after the transition. I remember that the elimination of such costs was an argument for the transition in the first place.
Re: Windows 10 switchover will cost Linux champion Munich €50m
#6This seems semi-reasonable over 29000 systems. The reality is enterprise support for linux systems is the one variable i don't really see discussed here. This is Microsoft's bread and butter for a reason. Organizations prefer an easy upfront cost rather than complex, support intensive solutions.
I'm not sure the level of support needed for Windows systems is much different to that of Linux. There will be an associated cost in both cases.
Also, I'd argue that IT support for linux is much easier to provide (and therefore, _should_ be cheaper, I can't say whether it is or not).
Re: Windows 10 switchover will cost Linux champion Munich €50m
#7Meanwhile:
https://www.itworld.com/article/2716115/operating-systems/sw...
I'm sure Munich council's decision to switch back to Windows, despite all the costs and long-term lock-in, had nothing to do with this totally random HQ-building in Munich:
https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-germany-moves-into-a-new-h...
Re: Windows 10 switchover will cost Linux champion Munich €50m
#8> Today the CSU political party, which has a long track record of opposition to LiMux, is also part of the ruling coalition in Munich. It was this coalition of CSU and SPD politicians that put forward the proposals to switch back to Windows 10 earlier this year. How do you say "pork" in German?
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Re: Windows 10 switchover will cost Linux champion Munich €50m
#9I wonder how they plan to disable the spyware? Even the enterprise edition doesn't allow turning everything off.
My employer is still rocking Windows 7 for this reason.
At one point we trialed Windows Phone, the guide was a series of embarassing turn this feature off, turn that frature off to try to limit the amount of data being syphoned. Now we use iPhones.
Re: Windows 10 switchover will cost Linux champion Munich €50m
#10That's not at all what it says. The cost of moving to Windows and office is ~€5 million:
>€ 4.8 million and licenses (for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, software distribution,
The €50 is for hardware replacements that were going to happen anyway.
Nothing in the article addresses the harder to track costs of user efficiency and expert support staff. I'm not claiming it's cheaper in either direction, but staffing costs are a very, very real cost.