Yeah but you’re missing the point. Them choosing to change despite the massive marketing budget of m$ is what my takeaway would be. Migrations are almost never easy.
de_lancre@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Amount of copium is insane in comments. Like, people straight up using fate, like it’s a docking religion, instead of using their head.
Other countries also tried and failed. It’s never brings any profit, instead government usually end up losing shit ton of money. Reason is simple: adoption requires contribution. You need to hire new IT specialist, that knows linux and not windows. You need to do requalification of already existing specialist. You need to adapt software. You need to teach every single focking person how to work with new alternative software. And you need to suffer downtime, cause people still new to linux and it’s software.
Adoption is very hard and those miserable savings on windows licensing is nothing compared to cost of migration. I’m not even saying “hypothetically”, here documented list.
Blind coping will get you nowhere.
sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Exactly.
This isn’t a decision being made to cut costs, it’s a strategic move because the EU just assessed how badly they’d be screwed if Trump throws a tantrum and forces American tech companies to disrupt services to their governments.
In addition, the EU has strong data privacy laws and US tech companies are resisting compliance (Elon was recently fined 150million, for example).
This has led to several hearings with tech executives who said that they could not guarantee that the data would stay in the EU and they could not guarantee that the data would not be provided to any other country.
Digital privacy laws don’t mean anything if they don’t apply to the major tech companies and they’ve said that they won’t comply.
de_lancre@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You missing the point of my comment, not me.
5 million a year would go a long way towards making their open source solutions meet their needs.
Look, those people think that it will be profitable. That it will save shit ton of money out of thin air. That what I call copium.
I did not said “it’s bad” to adopt linux, quite the opposite. What I said is that commenters here operate on a fate, not on a logic.
sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
That comment does not state that imo. I interpret it as „If they would spend that money on the transitions and advancing the open source projects they consider switching to, that would help the process“. But maybe that’s just a misunderstanding.
de_lancre@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That comment does not state that imo.
What do you meant :c
It’s right there, literally in the first sentence:
Amount of copium is insane in comments. Like, people straight up using fate, like it’s a fockin religion, instead of using their head.
LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I can only imagine all these bureaucrats with learning issues because something needs to be done differently now🙄
de_lancre@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I worked for “business automation” company, mainly as tech support of SAAS solution that target accountants\clerks that works with government documents.
I feel sorry for support guys\system administrators and everyone else involved.
LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Except for the clerks I guess… I wouldn’t feel sorry for them.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 4 days ago
What exactly are you trying to prove with that Wikipedia link? If anything it shows relatively wide adoption of Linux.
de_lancre@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Reread my comment then from the start.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 3 days ago
No no, I know what you’re implying, I was implying that the link doesn’t prove what you think it does. I’m assuming you fixated on the Munich project, and that is a convoluted story and the Wikipedia entry on that is not up to date. The latest on the Munich project is that they cancelled the switch back to Windows.
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
This is such a shortsighted take. After the initial hurdle of migration, you’re free of licenses forever. It won’t take long for the savings to match the initial costs, and after that it’s more money in the bank until the Sun explodes.