From: "Paul Ranson" 

How can Linux be so expensive?

That's roughly $2000 per seat! Something's not right by an order of magnitude.

Paul

"Peter Sawatzki"  wrote in message
news:MPG.1935e2f09fdb73c1989702{at}news.barkto.com...
> Bad news for Joe, the city of Munich, Germany will probably (*) NOT
> switch it's 16000 PCs to Linux: switching to Linux would have cost 33,8
> M Euro but MS offered their new software for 27,3 M Euro:
>
> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-21.05.03-000/
> http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,249649,00.html
>
> (all german text)
>
> Peter
>
> (*) not yet a final decision

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