:IT Manager's Journal: How a Linux-Based Financial System Paid for Itself in Three Months
IT Manager's Journal: How a Linux-Based Financial System Paid for Itself in Three Months Feb 11, 2004, 18 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (6204 reads) (Other stories by Chris Preimesberger)
"There's always time to hear how Linux can step right in and help an organization make or save money right away, right? To that end, here's another segment of our Immediate ROI series: a cheerful, real-life story with a good ending for your reading pleasure.
"This is a story about a small to medium-size government entity, the County of Essex in southern Ontario. It was having problems with scaling up its old, Windows/SQL Server-based system, and knew it had to make either an upgrade or a complete changeover. After looking at licensing and hardware costs, the county chose changeover. The cost savings was going to be substantial, but in an unexpected benefit, it only took one week for the new system to get up and running and become productive for a majority of its users..."
