____/ Mark Kent on Monday 23 July 2007 09:03 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Chennai Corporation opts for Open Office
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| More than 220 computers are networked at the civic headquarters. Officials
>>| decided that the licence fee alone would run to a hefty amount and decided
>>| to switch over to the open source alternative.
>>|
>>| A senior official said: ?We are able to do pretty much all we want ? write
>>| documents, make presentations and maintain ledgers.?
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.thehindu.com/2007/07/17/stories/2007071751210200.htm
>>
>
> As I and others have mentioned many many times in cola, anyone spending
> public money has no business buying proprietary software licences when
> there are FLOSS alternatives out there. We really should be looking for
> heads to roll in situations where this is mishandled, such as the BBC,
> The British Library and The National Archives, all of which seem to be
> spending public money on pointlessly expensive proprietary licences.
>
>>
>> Related:
>>
>> 100,000,000 OpenOffice.org fans can't be wrong
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Simon's official response explained the business rationale behind
>>| offering support for OpenOffice.org: "OpenOffice.org has become
>>| phenomenally successful, Sun alone has shipped more than 70 million
>>| copies of OpenOffice.org 2.0," he said. "Out there, there
>>| are maybe 100 million copies of OpenOffice.org. It would be
>>| senseless to ignore that opportunity."
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/11/100000000_openo.html
>
> Consider how many copies of open-office have been installed with Ubuntu,
> Debian, Red Hat, CentOS, OpenSUSE, knoppix, Elive, etc. There is a
> giant here, just awakening...
I've just found a really significant article with big news from Asia.
Apparently, the scale of OSS use by far exceeds even our own expectations. No
wonder Microsoft is attacking so brutally and corrupts the ISO+ECMA in the
process. Without lockin, it'll die. It now fights for long-term survival not
just because of the rise of Web-based software. Prices of their products are
elevated to the extreme to keep revenue coming, but at the same time, people
run away. It's not sustainable. Wait and watch.
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