Mittwoch Januar 16, 2008
Indian organization saving money with OpenOffice.org
"Umashankar says that his office uses the Openoffice.org suite. This saves them close to Rs 12,000 on each desktop, he says.
"We buy Intel dual core desktops with 19" TFT monitors for Rs 21,600 including the Linux OS. If we bought a proprietary office suite at Rs 12,000 for each desktop, the cost of commissioning infrastructure would go up to Rs 33,600 -- a 55 percent increase," he says.
And when you have to refresh over 30,000 PCs, that's a figure that can add up: to about Rs 17 crore.
And that's not all. These figures don't take into account software upgrades for applications. By using the free Openoffice.org suite and a Linux OS, Elcot has bypassed yearly licensing fees for proprietary software."
Found here.
( Jan 16 2008, 04:31:02 PM CET )
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