Re: [kictanet] Spain's Extremadura starts switch of 40, 000 government PCs to open source

Think of it as a two pairs of pants one requires a belt and cannot stretch and the other doesn't need any belt coz it got a rubber stretch on the waist ------------------------------ On Thu, May 2, 2013 6:47 AM PDT Evans Ikua wrote:
"The government of Spain's autonomous region of Extremadura has begun the switch to open source of it desktop PCs. The government expects the majority of its 40,000 PCs to be migrated this year, the region's CIO Theodomir Cayetano announced on 18 April. Extremadura estimates that the move to open source will help save 30 million euro per year." Read more here: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/spains-extremadura-starts-sw...
*My estimation that for every 300 dollars of my tax money that the Government spends on MS Office licensing, 250 dollars is wasted.*
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