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- Hometown:
- Naas, Ireland
- Do you run your own business?
- Yes
- What business help can you offer?
- Computers, Software
- What business help are you looking for?
- Just about anything
- Website:
- http://opensourceornot.blogspot.com
- Favourite Entrepreneur:
- Mark Shuttleworth
Martin Peacock's discussions
Anyone interested in potentially reducing costs
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Allen O'Leary Jul. 10, 2007.
What do you think of this article? Comments welcomed.
Replied Jun. 26, 2007
About Me
Use of open source software can be a great way to reduce costs so while I'm trying to get my own around stuff that is going on in the OSS world, I'll lash up some postlets in case anyone is interested.
Martin Peacock's Blog
OpenOffice
Let's face it. Microsoft Office Professional usually runs at €300+ per seat depending on volume, special deals & the phase of the moon. While that isn't the biggest outgoing for an SME, it adds up, and there is an alternative that is becoming increasingly attractive not least, because it's free.
I'll write again on what that word "free" means because it's a little deeper than first impressions but for the moment you can take it to mean "involves no financial cost". It IS NOT the sam… Continue
Posted on June 27th, 2007 at 2:36pm —
To do list
Having set the account up & getting this far - I'll have to push off & do some real work. But for anyone interested, I'll list a bunch of Open Source Software-based topics I can do a postlet on. Comments welcome & any requests will of course be considered (just avoid Neil Diamond).
- OpenOffice vs Microsoft Office: Save several hundred quid per seat?
- Is Linux a viable alternative to Windows: Dell thinks so (Part 1 - Options)
- About Open Source Softwar …
Posted on June 26th, 2007 at 2:25pm — 1 Comment
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I have gone down the Open office route. Unfortunately, I have experienced too many untimely crashes and lost work for me to continue working with it.
As for moving peeps to MYSQL - make sure you check the way you ship your product against the MYSQL terms of use and be prepared to pay licensing fees as required.
I am very interested in your idea for a business based on open source. Im an IT consultant and many of my customers are small businesses. I'm slowly moving people from MS SQL server to MySQL but I would love to be able to get them off MS Office, Windows Small Business Server etc. I think it will take some careful planning, configuration and hand-holding but I think it might be possible.
Id like to hear more about your ideas.
David.