[ubuntu-in] OT - feel good story about open source (sometimes AKA Linux)

[Narendra Diwate]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Narendra Diwate
> <narendra.diwate at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Wonder how much they need to pay Hyperoffice for the hosted Vitual office
> on
> > a per user basis.
>
> some info here
> http://www.hyperoffice.com/pricing/
>
> good point though. For a realistic answer we would need to know what
> their equivalent cost was and what really is the open source
> componenst (that bring the price down)
>

Even at a cost of $5 per user per month, i think it is fairly high (for an
NGO atleast). There are fairly robust Zero cost options that one can
possibly use. On a long term basis a regular outgo of this magnitude is in
my opinion fairly high. And as expected this is probably a PR exercise from
the company.

Regards

Narendra Diwate
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