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Paddy

@tarakiyee I agree that open source should be prioritized on every government level.

But roughly 200 million a year is much lower than I would have thought.

Especially since we have about half a million people working directly for the federal government and it's agencies and most in Microsoft based environments.

In the total workplace costs (labor, services, facilities, enegry etc.), this isn't really such a big item.

4 Jun 2024 at 6:20 | Wall-to-wall | Open on chaos.social
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tarakiyee

@PaGn that's still 400 euros just in licenses per employee going to one company, and I would bet the vast majority only need essential productivity tools. It's not sustainable particularly when you consider that most government departments are strapped for budget and could use that money elsewhere.

4 Jun 2024 at 8:26 | Open on mastodon.online
Paddy

@tarakiyee
I agree that most activities are far from "sustainable".

But it's not really one company, nor one central IT. It's 31 supreme federal government authorities, about 70(?) Higher federal authorities below plus some attachments.

And their MS infrastructure (Standard: Exchange, Active Directory, Outlook, maybe Sharepoint, MS SQL etc.) is usually still decentralized, efforts to concentrate it on a single service provider (IZT Bund) have been delayed/stalled.

So 400€pP? Still cheap! ;)

@tarakiyee
I agree that most activities are far from "sustainable".

But it's not really one company, nor one central IT. It's 31 supreme federal government authorities, about 70(?) Higher federal authorities below plus some attachments.

And their MS infrastructure (Standard: Exchange, Active Directory, Outlook, maybe Sharepoint, MS SQL etc.) is usually still decentralized, efforts to concentrate it on a single service provider (IZT Bund) have been delayed/stalled.

4 Jun 2024 at 9:11 | Open on chaos.social
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