Just want to share a recent discussion I had on a different medium and
again could be related somewhat to a marketing campaing that OOo could
leverage.
For people not following US politics, president elect Barack Obama has
done a weekly videoblog of the changes and proposals on its campaing. One
big difference to past administrations is the economic situation that the
US and the rest of the world currently face.
Barack's proposal is to create more jobs by improving the infrastructure
from several areas of the government, schooling, hospitals etc. One of the
most pointed out benefits is to become more technological savvy and
enviromentally friendly.
This two pilars are key drivers for the decisions on having new
infrastructure deployed. FLOSS for years has also been portrait as the
enviromental friendly option because of the low resource/power which free
and open software needs.
During a recent study we calculate that OpenOffice.org small size
(compared to MSO) can leverage 30% more life out of the hardware making it
more enviromentally friendly.
Other companies has already prove FLOSS viabilities on thin clients and
very low powered equipments such as netbooks and low resources fat clients
like the EEEPC Desktop or Zombu or Koolu.
http://hothardware.com/News/Asus_Eee_PC_Desktop_Eee_Box_Unveiled/
This represent two big benefits which increase infrastructure, while
reducing cost and being enviromentally friendly.
So question are:
- How OOo Benefit infrastructure?
- How OOo is a Greener choice?
- How OOo is more economically viable and efficient.
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Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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