[Am-info] SMBS SHUN MICROSOFT FOR OPEN SOURCE

[Fred A. Miller]

SMBS SHUN MICROSOFT FOR OPEN SOURCE

Posted July 16, 2003 11:01 AM Pacific Time

NEW YORK - Some price-sensitive small and midsize businesses
(SMBs) are turning to Linux and other open-source products as
a lower-cost alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s ubiquitous
business software, Jupiter Research found in a recent study.

Surveying several hundred businesses of less than 1,000
employees, Jupiter found that 19 percent are using some form
of Linux on their desktop computers. Six percent said they
use OpenOffice, an open-source suite of productivity
applications, with an additional 3 percent reporting plans to
deploy it in their next fiscal year, according to Joe Wilcox,
a Washington, D.C.-based Jupiter Research senior analyst.

=46or the full story:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/07/16/HNjupiter_1.html

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