IT Manager’s Journal: How a Linux-Based Financial System Paid for Itself in Three Months

“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…”

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Story