Spanish Region Saves A Fortune By Moving To Open Source

Spanish region saves a fortune by moving to open source

In a victory for the free software movement, the Spanish autonomous region of Extremadura has started to switch more than 40,000 government PCs to open source.

All the computers will be migrated this year. Extremadura estimates that the move to open source will help save €30 million per year.

It is Europe's second largest governmental desktop migration, after the French Gendarmerie, which is migrating some 90,000 desktops. Europe's third largest project is the German city of Munich, which has to date switched 13,000 PCs.