[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/6/2024 12:22 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 00:10:26 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Some like to blame MS for what happened. But the project execution does
>> not seem attractive to follow.
> 
> It saved money over all. That was one of the main points of the exercise.

I am not sure a CIO would see it that way.

The official story is that it saved 11 million Euro.

That number came from a report provided to the city council 10 year
after project start, where they compared what they chose with
alternative strategies.

The bottom line was that the chosen Linux & OOo/LO strategy
had 11 million Euro lower cost than the Windows & MSO strategy.

Basically: MSO licenses 4.2 million, Windows licenses 2.6 million
and HW upgrades required by Windows 5 million compared to 0.3
million for Limux.

I am sure the numbers are correct. Or as close to as practically
possible.

But the assumption was that staff and end user training
cost was the same for doing the switch as for just upgrading
the MS solution.

And the software creation including the approx. 65000 lines
of code (mostly Java) for WollMux is set to zero.

Arne