Federal authorities of the Swiss Confederation recently launched a pilot program to replace Microsoft 365 tools with open-source alternatives. The Federal Chancellery's plan calls for investing 9...
So they pay two years this year to not pay anything forever? (I know this is not really how this works and I sure hope they will start/continue sponsoring open-source solutions as many governments seem to do.)
That’s an easy math question if I have ever seen one, even despite it containing infinity and larger/smaller relation!
Things aren’t that simple, included in the microsoft licensing price are things like customer support - and not just for windows but other products like office, and none of that are part of the 0$ linux license. If you want customer support on linux (redhat, canonical…) it ain’t free either.
With an estimated 38,000 federal staff and a cost of $36 per month each for an enterprise license it looks like 12 million a year roughly.
So they pay two years this year to not pay anything forever? (I know this is not really how this works and I sure hope they will start/continue sponsoring open-source solutions as many governments seem to do.)
That’s an easy math question if I have ever seen one, even despite it containing infinity and larger/smaller relation!
Things aren’t that simple, included in the microsoft licensing price are things like customer support - and not just for windows but other products like office, and none of that are part of the 0$ linux license. If you want customer support on linux (redhat, canonical…) it ain’t free either.