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public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) (euro-stack.com)
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they will save 188,000 € on Microsoft license fees per year

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's not.

The problem is that one percent that does need Windows.

Unicorns suck in IT. It's a small number of systems that take a disproportionate amount of admin overhead.

So IT leadership has to decide if they support a separate OS for a small percentage of users, or one OS that works for everyone (Windows).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Those boxes will be unicorns no matter what, though, also, they're not necessarily part of the general IT infrastructure. Someone in catastrophe defence might be running fluid simulations using some god awful expensive windows-only software but chances are they can manage their own box, and if not, the ministry will still have IT staff who can deal with that kind of thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    IT absolutely does still have to manage those things though. At my company we have all sorts of obscure boxes controlling things like diagnostic readers and CNC machines. Things that the mechanics/engineers [imo] should be able to manage, its still on us.

    Plus they usually still want those things to access the internet (because they require it) or access to file shares (to get gcode files and whatever) which is firmly an IT task

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