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Open source software could help firms
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| Firms could save Â400 by using open source
| office programmes, Â615 through free photo-
| editing software and Â40 through free anti-
| virus protection.
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http://www.ihotdesk.com/article/19438673/Open-source-software-could-help-firms
Recent:
Open source software can save India $2 bn
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| As Indian consumers and enterprises evaluate the option of
| upgrading to Microsoftâs much-touted operating system (OS)
| Windows 7, to be officially launched on October 22, the free
| and open source software (FOSS) community has fired yet
| another salvo at proprietary software.
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| In the year 2010, if FOSS is adopted at 50 per cent levels
| across the economy, India can save around $2 billion (around
| Rs 9,800 crore), suggests a study conducted by the Indian
| Institute of Management-Bangalore. Even a very conservative
| estimate, notes the study, pegs the cost savings for use of
| FOSS on servers as an operating system or as an application
| at Rs 138 crore in 2010.
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http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/open-source-software-can-save-india-2-bn/369858/
Could India Save Billions With FOSS? Whose Numbers Are Accurate?
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| I suspect that such truly independent numbers would show
| that there are truths to weigh behind both Red Hat's and
| Microsoft's positions. Support and training are cost centers
| in big software deployments, but companies like Red Hat
| specialize in minimizing the costs for them. As is always
| true with statistics, it can get very hard to discern
| whether the ones we see are lies, damned lies, or truths.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/could-india-save-billions-with-foss-whose-numbers-are-accurate
Open Source Software Can Save India $2 BN/year--At least!
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| I am glad to see a mainstream business resource like the
| Business Standard publishing a reasoned analysis and
| properly recognizing just how much waste there is in
| India's current procurement practices. The bad news is
| that the numbers are likely much, much larger. The good
| news is that that waste can be eliminated, and India could
| be much, much richer the sooner it makes a more decisive
| shift from proprietary dependency to open source
| independence.
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http://opensource.org/node/467
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