NSW State Revenue Office claims 83% reduction in costs under Linux

Submitted on Sat, 01/10/2005 - 5:07am

"As soon as support ends for XP, we will look at moving to Linux [desktops]," Babhoota said, adding the back-end switch to open source had cost 17 percent of what a proprietary upgrade had been costed at, with the agency doubling the amount of business it processed in the same 12-month 28 October, 2004period. http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1585732244;fp;2;fpid;1