Open Source Making Inroads in Small Businesses

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.""

Comments

Re:Bullshit

[Lieutenant_Dan]

can't cahge that

I see you're using Office XP! Good for you. But you should install SP1 which fixes the spell checker.

Re:where's the beef?

[azzy]

> I wasn't aware that Slashdot was a spam forum

You must be new h.. oh never mind.

Re:I find that hard to believe.

[schon]

I haven't consulted for small businesses in a few years, but when I was, I didn't find ANY linux

Yes, and we all know that the world is a fixed, static place, where nothing ever changes.

I haven't consulted for small businesses in a few years either, but when I was, I didn't find ANY Windows servers. Everybody was using Novell!

So, therefore (by your own logic), Novell must be the most popular server platform for small business.

Wow, I think somebody should tell them, I'm sure they'd love to hear that!

Re:Different here

[bygimis]

Hey - I looked out of the Window and didn't see any chinses people! All that crap about 1/5 of the worlds population - its a boax!

Goatse link in parent's sig

[rsheridan6]

AGGHH!! That's the second time today I've seen that gaping red hole!