testeroniousGerman state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
I hope they do not try to save that money but rather take the opportunity to invest some of it into the open source ecosystem that are now relying on.
That's not how governments work
Why not both?
Let’s say MS charges $5M a year.
Their support contract, assuming they get one, for libre office might be $1M.
They could still invest another $1M in OSS and still save $3M
A $1M net gain for OSS and a $3M savings for the govt.
That’s called a pareto optimum