![]() Freiburg - a smaller city administration - focused on cost cutting. ![]() With help from friends in Germany, I've worked my way through some of the information about both Freiburg and Munich.Ĭost cutting, two ways The contrast between the approach taken in the two cities is striking. ![]() Working out exactly what's been happening has been involved, first because there is an amazing volume of paperwork to digest and because everything beyond the superficial is in German. When two almost-simultaneous announcements on the same topic have opposite conclusions, you know complexity awaits, with deeper lessons to be learned. What went wrong? Was it simply that the open source software was incapable of delivering the functions that Freiburg needed? The first hint that the answer to that question would require some digging came when, almost simultaneously, another German city - Munich - announced that the success of its open source migration had netted savings around $13 million.
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