14 DAY TRIAL // Municipalities from all over the world are switching to open source software and are denouncing the use of proprietary software. It's now the turn of the Dutch city of Ede to do the same.
The local authorities from Ede, in Netherlands, have reported 92% savings from this decision alone, by making the switch from proprietary to free.
“The city of Ede, the Netherlands, currently has an annual total ICT budget of six million euros. According to the Dutch Berenschot benchmark for municipal ICT costs, that is 24 percent less than other municipalities of comparable size are spending.”
“Drilling down shows that most of this reduction can be explained by Ede's extremely low spend on software licenses: only 56 euros per full-time equivalent employee (FTE) instead of 731 euros. That's a very impressive 92 percent less than average,” reads a report from joinup.ec.europa.eu.
This is just the last city in a long list of municipalities that have chosen to adopt open source alternatives, like Munich.