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Story: Seizing opportunities to go open source

Posted by: Huw Pearce (Wednesday 5 November 2003, 10:36 AM)

Whilst the cost of installing Open Source on the PC's has not been included. What has also not been taken into account which, negates the argument about installing Open Source cost, is the fact that as the PC's are running Windows 98 and Office 98 and the scenario is to upgrade to Windows XP & Office XP is
a) the cost of installing both these products
b) the probable need to buy new PC's or hardware to run Windows XP & Office XP

So the cost factor of changing to Open Source is potentially even more beneficial, although some of the Linux distributions now assume Gbytes space available!