<story><title>Windows 10 switchover will cost Linux champion Munich €50m</title><url>https://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-switchover-will-cost-linux-champion-munich-50m/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0g&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending%20Content&amp;utm_content=5a14ac6f00bd470007dd3c20&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tw04</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s not at all what it says.  The cost of moving to Windows and office is ~€5 million:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;€ 4.8 million and licenses (for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, software distribution,&lt;p&gt;The €50 is for hardware replacements that were going to happen anyway.&lt;p&gt;Nothing in the article addresses the harder to track costs of user efficiency and expert support staff.  I&amp;#x27;m not claiming it&amp;#x27;s cheaper in either direction, but staffing costs are a very, very real cost.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>merb</author><text>Costs are as follow:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    - 14   Mio € for personal costs
    - 24   Mio € for consulting (not sure why that is that high?!)
    - 13,4 Mio € for it@M services (support, hardware installation, etc it@M is the it company that manages the project)
    -  4,8 Mio € for HARDWARE
    - 29,9 Mio € for Licenses (Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, software delivery, License-, Print-, and Profile Management, identity management and extension of the virtualisation environment)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
(to be fair the pdf quotes that a big cost will be the investment into additional virtualisation, probably licenses)&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ris-muenchen.de&amp;#x2F;RII&amp;#x2F;RII&amp;#x2F;DOK&amp;#x2F;SITZUNGSVORLAGE&amp;#x2F;4740966.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ris-muenchen.de&amp;#x2F;RII&amp;#x2F;RII&amp;#x2F;DOK&amp;#x2F;SITZUNGSVORLAGE&amp;#x2F;4740...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Somebody read over the &amp;#x27;and&amp;#x27; (edit:) and to be fair it&amp;#x27;s a wierd way of expressing something that is so important in german. probably  an intention.</text></comment>
<story><title>Windows 10 switchover will cost Linux champion Munich €50m</title><url>https://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-switchover-will-cost-linux-champion-munich-50m/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0g&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending%20Content&amp;utm_content=5a14ac6f00bd470007dd3c20&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tw04</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s not at all what it says.  The cost of moving to Windows and office is ~€5 million:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;€ 4.8 million and licenses (for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, software distribution,&lt;p&gt;The €50 is for hardware replacements that were going to happen anyway.&lt;p&gt;Nothing in the article addresses the harder to track costs of user efficiency and expert support staff.  I&amp;#x27;m not claiming it&amp;#x27;s cheaper in either direction, but staffing costs are a very, very real cost.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mijoharas</author><text>From the text:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;  the former open-source champion would pay €49.3 million to create a new Windows 10 client OS&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know what you mean by calling a &amp;quot;new client OS&amp;quot; &amp;quot;hardware replacements that were going to happen anyway&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I find the sentence confusing itself, as the OS would be microsoft, maybe they mean a distribution with preinstalled software? Either way, I don&amp;#x27;t read it to mean hardware replacemens</text></comment>