MS Won't Release Study Disputing Munich's Linux-Switch Savings
"As previously reported on Slashdot, in November of last year, the city of Munich reported savings of over €10 million from its switch to Linux. Microsoft subsequently commissioned a study (conducted by HP) that found that, in fact, 'Munich would have saved €43.7 million if it had stuck with Microsoft.' Now, Microsoft has said it won't release the study, saying that '[it] was commissioned by Microsoft to HP Consulting for internal purposes only.'" -- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/01/22/1716244/ms-wont-release-study-dispu... Sounds like good old FUD to me... Like "Linux is infringes on heaps of our patents", without ever stating which patents exactly, if I recall that correctly: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/ Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"As previously reported on Slashdot, in November of last year, the city of Munich reported savings of over €10 million from its switch to Linux. Microsoft subsequently commissioned a study (conducted by HP) that found that, in fact, 'Munich would have saved €43.7 million if it had stuck with Microsoft.' Now, Microsoft has said it won't release the study, saying that '[it] was commissioned by Microsoft to HP Consulting for internal purposes only.'"
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/01/22/1716244/ms-wont-release-study-dispu...
Some more details, but still no release of the study: http://h-online.com/-1789679 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Hi For those of you who can read German and grabbed it while it was still available (it has been taken down since), the difference between the Limux study and the Microsoft study is largely that the Limux study does assume licence costs are payable to Microsoft, both for new computers purchased, and to upgrade old Windows versions. The Microsoft study does not . . . If they had, they would have to make public how much rebate Microsoft is willing to give to large customers. So we get fed partial information . . . Volfgang On 24/01/13 10:20, Peter Reutemann wrote:
"As previously reported on Slashdot, in November of last year, the city of Munich reported savings of over €10 million from its switch to Linux. Microsoft subsequently commissioned a study (conducted by HP) that found that, in fact, 'Munich would have saved €43.7 million if it had stuck with Microsoft.' Now, Microsoft has said it won't release the study, saying that '[it] was commissioned by Microsoft to HP Consulting for internal purposes only.'"
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/01/22/1716244/ms-wont-release-study-dispu... Some more details, but still no release of the study: http://h-online.com/-1789679
Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174 _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
For those of you who can read German and grabbed it while it was still available (it has been taken down since), the difference between the Limux study and the Microsoft study is largely that the Limux study does assume licence costs are payable to Microsoft, both for new computers purchased, and to upgrade old Windows versions. The Microsoft study does not . . . If they had, they would have to make public how much rebate Microsoft is willing to give to large customers. So we get fed partial information . . .
"Microsoft partly releases study on Munich's Linux migration" http://h-online.com/-1792733 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
"Microsoft partly releases study on Munich's Linux migration"
And here's Munich's answer: "City of Munich disagrees with HP's Linux migration study" http://h-online.com/-1797232 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
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