Topic: Linux brings over €10 million savings for Munich

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According to the calculation, Windows with Microsoft Office would so far have incurred about €11.6 million (£9.3 million) in operating-system-related costs. Microsoft Office and its upgrades would have cost €4.2 million (£3.3 million), and the Windows system about €2.6 million (£2.1 million). The LiMux project allowed a further €5 million (£4 million) for hardware upgrades in connection with the Windows 7 system upgrade. Application migration costs were estimated to be around €55,000 (£44,000). If the city council had chosen Windows but used OpenOffice, the estimated cost would have been about two thirds, or €7.4 million (£5.9 million).

According to the comparison, the cost of the LiMux scenario was only a fraction of this. The project management says that by September 2012, the project had incurred only €270,000 (£218,000) because it involved no licence fees and no hardware upgrades were necessary as a result of software upgrades. The costs were exclusively generated by migrating applications.