Italian city of Turin switching to open source technology

In a recent development, the Italian city of Turin is considering ditching all Microsoft products in favour of open source alternatives. The move is directly aimed at cutting government costs, while not compromising on functionality. If at all Turin gets rid of all proprietary software, it will go on to become one of the first Italian ‘open source cities’ and save itself at least a whopping six million Euros. A report suggests that as many as 8,300 computers of the local administration in Turin will soon have Ubuntu under the hood and will be shipped with the Mozilla Firefox

Web browser and OpenOffice — the two joys of the open source world. The local government has argued that a large amount of money is spent on buying licences in case of proprietary software, wasting a lot of the local tax payers’ money. Therefore, a decision to drop Microsoft in favour of cost-effective open source alternatives seems to be a viable option.