savings of about 30 percent could save the city administration. The contract was awarded to the used software dealer in a public tender.
The city council of Nuremberg has opted for used Microsoft licenses. Source: Shutterstock
The used software dealer usedSoft is a large order of Nuremberg known. The company estimates that the order volume to a “six-figure sum”. According usedSoft could be saved through the use of “matched” software compared to the original price about 30 percent of license costs the city of Nuremberg.
The contracting proceeded, as in the government sector a tender advance. Public institutions are in bidding obliged to opt for the long term best price.
After it has been added to Software Used a judgment of the European Court and the Federal Supreme Court, the use of used software also seems fairly quite sure.
“The software used market offers the public the opportunity to reduce their IT costs significantly,” said the Managing Director of usedSoft Peter Schneider to the Nuremberg bulk order. “In software, there is also that they, in contrast to almost all other products not wear. A used license has for the municipality or authority the same value as a new – with the only, but important difference that the buyer it relates in usedSoft at much cheaper rates “
The fact that a large city like Nuremberg. decides for used licenses, evaluates and usedSoft Board of Directors and former Siemens CEO Heinrich von Pierer as an important signal. In addition, the mayor of Nuremberg Ulrich Maly was also President of German Cities. A statement from the city of Nuremberg is currently not yet available.
How usedSoft tells the order in Nuremberg is already the 150 users of the public domain: So the controversial dealer called, among other things, Stadtwerke Witten and Cottbus, the district of Viersen and Munich and Fürth as a customer. In addition, companies such as Edeka, s.Oliver, Segafredo or Woolworth put on used licenses from the usedSoft portfolio.
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