I suppose a lot of you have already read the article about the cities of
Houston and Chicago considering SimDesk (a remote hosted office software) as
alternatives to Office, to avoid the cost and strong arm tactics of Microsoft
(it was linked from Slashdot). Houston has signed a $15M/3 year contract
already and Chicago is seeking grants to try out SimDesk. That is serious
money. If someone were feeling underutilized or out of work or just looking
for a business opportunity, they might consider this. It seems in Houston
15000 PCs were involved. You can use 20 PCs running LTSP/OpenOffice/LDAP to
provide not just an office suite but other educational and other kinds of
software to an user-base of this size; and everything's already developed and
tested (some assembly required). Seems to me if Chicago wants to save money
they can do a lot better than SimDesk and there must be people out there to
enable it (the market is supposed to be efficient, right?).
--
bhaskar
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