Two are more expensive more than one?

Mirko Boehm mirko.mb.boehm at gmail.com
Thu Aug 20 06:03:46 UTC 2015


So they are basically saying “Deploying OpenOffice alone cost us 93% of 500€/user/year as opposed to 200€ for MS Office? That is about the biggest admission of “we don’t know how to do installation management for our IT” that I have ever heard. 

Cheers, 

Mirko.

> On 20 Aug 2015, at 07:56, Matthias Kirschner <mk at fsfe.org> wrote:
> 
> You probably saw this article already
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/huge-savings-prompt-italian-city-to-dump-openoffice-for-microsoft-after-four-years/?tag=nl.e552&s_cid=e552&ttag=e552&ftag=TRE3e6936e
> 
> First of all I think it makes no sense to talk about ownership when you
> talk about services. You can say total cost of operations. But that is
> different than when you own something.
> 
> My second question (I hope some Italian speakers can clarify): Do they
> really compare the costs for running Microsoft Office and Apache
> OpenOffice in parallel with just running Microsoft Office??

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