Paris Report: Open-Source Move Could Be Costly

KingFishKingFish
edited October 2004 in Science & Tech
It won't be "all or nothing" and it won't be "everything, right away." That's the gist of the message coming out of Paris following the presentation of a report on a possible switch from Windows to open source.
A lot of smoke without fire seems to be the result of the in-camera meeting, where the results of the report, "Economic Study of a Migration to Open Source," were scheduled to be revealed to a handful of Parisian officials and the question of whether Paris will follow Munich was to be answered. In a short statement, an assistant to Francois Dagnaud--the man in charge of the Paris executive's drive to modernize its IT--revealed that the total revolution hoped for by fans of the General Public License and OpenOffice and feared by Microsoft won't happen. The assistant said: "The scenario of a near-term massive migration to open source, i.e., a complete and immediate change, appeared incompatible with the original state of the technology and systems, which the audit carried out in 2001 highlighted the age of." He added: "Furthermore, it would mean significant additional costs without improving the service provided."
Source: ZDNet

Comments

  • SputnikSputnik Worcester, MA
    edited October 2004
    whimp.


    of course it's gonna have some upfront cost: everything costs alot when you initially migrate your ENTIRE setup from one platform to another. we call it "stages."
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