Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Saving a Billion Using Open Source
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> | A leading bank in India saved Rs 100 crore by moving from MS Office to
> | Open Office. It is simple mathematicsâif MS Office costs Rs 11,000 per
> | user, and the organization has 1,00,000 desktops, the company would save
> | a cool Rs 110 crore on licensing costs if it moved to Open Office. Even
> | if we budget Rs 10 crore for training and support costs, the company
> | would end up saving Rs 100 crore.
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> http://networkcomputing.in/Saving-a-Billion-Using-Open-Source-Open-
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Thats a train load of money saved.
If many of the banks switched to firefox web browsers and apache servers,
they would save many more truck loads of money.
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