{"id":9158,"date":"2013-01-22T15:33:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T21:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9158"},"modified":"2013-01-22T15:33:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T21:33:30","slug":"microsoft-wont-release-study-that-challenged-success-of-munichs-linux-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9158","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft won&#8217;t release study that challenged success of Munich&#8217;s Linux migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>By switching from Windows to its own Linux distribution, LiMux, Munich <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/operating-systems\/321474\/switching-linux-saves-munich-over-11-million\">has saved over \u00ac11 million<\/a> (US$14.3 million) so far, the city announced in November. But a Microsoft-commissioned Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) study conducted by HP suggests that the city&#8217;s numbers are wrong, and claims that Munich would have saved \u00ac43.7 million if it had stuck with Microsoft, German weekly Focus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focus.de\/finanzen\/news\/software-streit-bei-der-stadt-muenchen-haben-udes-it-experten-falsch-gerechnet_aid_901250.html\">reported<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/open-source\/337658\/microsoft-wont-release-study-challenged-success-munichs-linux-migration\">Microsoft won&#8217;t release study that challenged success of Munich&#8217;s Linux migration | ITworld<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I find it funny watching numbers being fudged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By switching from Windows to its own Linux distribution, LiMux, Munich has saved over \u00ac11 million (US$14.3 million) so far, the city announced in November. But a Microsoft-commissioned Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) study conducted by HP suggests that the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9158\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[598,61,50,734],"class_list":["post-9158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-european","tag-linux","tag-microsoft","tag-survey-says"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}