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Open Source Making Inroads in Small Businesses

Posted by michael on from the price-sensitive dept.

prostoalex writes "In a story mainly about new OpenOffice release, NewsFactor Network quotes an interesting finding of Jupiter Research analyst: "Open-source productivity suites did "surprisingly well" in the mid-size business market, with the OpenOffice suite alone claiming a share of about 6%. Furthermore, [Joe Wilcox] found that some 19% of small businesses ran Linux on their desktop, and a whopping 26% ran Linux on their servers.""

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  1. Not my biz by NineNine · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The only OSS in my biz is VNC, and that's because it's the only one easy enough to use. Linux? Puh-lease. I spend my time running my business. Linux is too expensive (time-wise). It's cheaper to pay $200, install W2K, and forget about it. Open Office? Maybe, if we did documents of any kind I'd think about it, but it's gotta be 100%. My vendors send my Word & Excel docs all the time and I don't have time to dick around with opening them. They either open, or they don't. Time is very, very valuable. Saving a few hundred bucks when it's going to take me & my employees hours and hours to fight with the software is not a good value.