IBM has introduced a line of business computers that eschew Microsoft’s ubiquitous desktop environment in favor of an amalgam of open source software.
The system, which IBM calls the Open Collaboration Client, combines the Linux operating system with IBM’s open source Lotus Symphony desktop package.
Symphony, the Open Document Format and spreadsheet applications based on word processing, presentation is also involved. IBM Lotus Notes apps are also available.
IBM claims the system can save companies $ 500 to $ 800 per user on Microsoft software licenses and an additional amount of $ 258 per user “, because there is no need for an upgrade of hardware support for Windows Vista and Office.”
Source informationweek.com
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