Munich (Germany)
The administration of the city of Munich in Germany has completed the switch to the open source desktop. The IT department is now securing the strategy, to make sure it can be maintained by the city and to sustainably support interactions with citizens, businesses and other public authorities.
The city is now using a unified desktop system, Limux, its own distribution based on the Ubuntu Linux open source operating system and open source applications, on 14,000 of the total 15,000 desktops, spread over 51 offices across the city. That is 2,000 more than it's intended goal, using Limux on 80 % of its desktops.
Hofmann, head of the migration project, stressed that saving money was never the primary aim. However, he said that moving to open source saved the city over 10 million euro so far.
Extremadura (Spain)
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. Extremadura estimates that the move to open source will help save 30 million euro per year.
French Gendarmerie (France)
The French Gendarmerie is migrating some 90,000 desktops. Moreover the Gendarmerie estimates dramatic savings from using free open source software that amount to nearly 7 million Euros per year (2 million euros in licences).
Resume
| Administration | Country | Number of desktops | Saving (5 years) | Saving a Desktop |
| City of Munich | Germany | 14,000 | 10,000,000.00 € | 714.29 € |
| Autonomous region of Extremadura | Spain | 40,000 | 30,000,000.00 € | 750.00 € |
| French Gendarmerie* | France | 90,000 | 35,000,000.00 € | 388.89 € |
Calculus
What it would happen if we do calculus for desktop of General Public Administration of Spain. Here, the figures
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| Administration | Country | Number of desktops | Saving (5 years) | Saving a Desktop |
| General administration (mean) | 520.83 € | |||
| General Public Administration | Spain | 450,012 | 234,381,250.00 € | 520.83 € |
| Local Administration | Spain | 344,378 | 179,363,541.67 € | 520.83 € |
| TOTAL | 413,744,791.67 € | |||
| Direct Employment equivalent (for example programmer or support operator) | 3,310 |
Result
- Direct saving of licences, SO, office suite, antivirus system, ...
- Ease of maintenance delivers significant time savings
- Seamless integration simplifies processes
Conclusion
- Saving of 414 million of € in 5 years, we could employ 3,310 programmers or support operators. (It is important to note that Windows 7 has a total of 920 developers, we could develop 3 new versions of Windows )
- How many new employees around this business of free software will be create, direct and indirect employment.
- How many companies could take advantage of use free software product in different ways, internal cost (licenses, better support, ...) and more competitive products using firmware base on free software.
Spain needs new ideas and activities in its productive model, maybe and I am convinced that this would be one of them. And public administrations should encourage local employment.
References
- City of Munich: "Migration to sustainable desktop completed successfully"
- Spain's Extremadura starts switch of 40,000 government PCs to open source
- La gendarmerie passera ses 70 000 PC sous Ubuntu d'ici à 5 ans
- French National Police Force saves €2 million a year with Ubuntu
- Informe IRIA 2012
- How many people make Windows 7?
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