[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Dave Froble]

On 1/6/2024 8:31 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

Yep!

Free software ...

Oh, wait, I thought we got rid of slavery ...

No cost on the labor?

Yeah, right ...


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