The Open Source Blunder

The City Manager went for the publicity in 2004 by dumping Microsoft in favor of open source operating systems and software. The Post commended him and other "innovative" types that December.

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It seems that he forgot something due to a lack of understanding in what he was really doing besides wasting hundreds of thousands of you dollars. Your people need to be able to use the available software. Microsoft made billions because it put the end user first. The Linux operating system is technically better but only our life saving "geeks" are comfortable using it.

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To avoid total embarrassment, the Manager is going to keep Linux on the servers while switching back to Microsoft programs. It's time for our elected leaders to demand an accounting of all the dollars wasted. I wonder if they would have given him a higher percentage raise than other employees if this debacle had been considered?