Clouds over Munich
vnunet.com – Gartner questions Munich Linux migration delay. This story has been unfolding in Europe. First there were reports that “patent issues” were the reason. This was obviously planted by someone. Now we have the next checkbox item: It costs too much. Somehow a free OS costs too much. This is done through the magic of TCO — total cost of ownership mumbo-jumbo.
Question: where do crooked bookkeepers end up? They end up doing TCO calculations. “Time employees must spend memorizing the name Linux. Cost estimate $1000 per employee per year.”
Concern over EU patents directives was not Munich’s primary motivation in freezing its migration of 14,000 desktops from the Windows operating system to an open source offering based on Linux, believes Gartner vice president Andrea Di Maio.
It’s amazing, but it’s like a recurring bad dream. I outlined this whole scene in my column Smear Factor, worth rereading.
thanks to James Dermit for finding the Munich thread
I thought Europe had decided against software patents?
Europe needs to get consistent and decide what they are going to do. Software patents are often ridiculous and, as I recall, either in October 2002 or October 2003 +/- a month, Europe decided they would not permit software patents.
No wonder Europe is in decline; they don’t have a cohesive idea of what they are doing.
Figures don’t lie,
But liars figure.
-Mark Twain
Hydrocodone….
Hydrocodone online. Has anyone had a baby while taking hydrocodone….