Open Source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry.
Full story »Open Source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations, says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry.
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lozz
15 years 24 weeks 8 hours 42 min ago
3 to 1!
So, it costs 1,000 Euros for the Ministry to maintain a GNU/Linux unit for a year, and more than 3,000 for the proprietary equivalent.
In these cash-strapped times a three to one saving starts to make a power of sense.