Are Germans so smart or we Dutch that dumb
No, this has nothing to do with a possible match during the soccer worldcup. It is about open source. Look at the German city Munich, where they started in 2005 to migrate to open source. In 2013 the project was finished successful. A migration that resulted in 14.000 of the 15.000 seats running among others Linux at the desktop and LibreOffice. Significant investments have been made, but already now there are savings of 11 million Euro . The money that has been spent, of course will benefit the regional economy to a large extend. Smart! There is by the way also a report that says that Munich loses money on the project, but that reports makes wrong assumptions and is - what a coincidence - written on request of Microsoft by its partner HP, that gives no underlying info . So all municipalities: do take good notice of this , for in case someone uses that manipulated report to give a negative advise on open source! So fine, a significant use of open source does make sense. Do the peo...