Slashdot | German Foreign Ministry Migrates Desktops To OSS
The Foreign Ministry in Germany is migrating all of its 11,000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other open source applications. According to the article, ‘this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries. “The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we spend only one thousand euro per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average spend more than 3000 euro per desktop per year … 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 … “The embassies in Japan and Korea have completely switched over, the embassy in Madrid has been exclusively using GNU/Linux since October last year”, Schuster added, calling the migration a success.’

Very cool. I think the city of Munich moved to Open Source a while ago.

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