From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 18 17:15:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E9F916A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:15:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jail.idea-anvil.net (idea-anvil.net [63.226.12.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF30143D67 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:15:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aksis@idea-anvil.net) Received: from idea-anvil.net (vaio [10.0.0.99]) by jail.idea-anvil.net (8.12.11/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j1IHFZj8046559 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:15:35 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from aksis@idea-anvil.net) From: aksis Organization: idea-anvil.net To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:15:22 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <42125E71.30804@tbc.net> <776154525.20050216042131@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502181015.24402.aksis@idea-anvil.net> Subject: Re: Assuming We Want FreeBSD to Grow: Who Is It For? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:15:36 -0000 One other market to consider is offices environments. KDE has all the basic office software and it runs well on FreeBSD. The office suite has become quite a bit more compatible with MS formats. The license costs for 100 workstations that people are just doing some data entry or other similar repetitive tasks would be much cheaper. Major Upgrades would cost less. Not sure on the development costs for a specific program for a company would be any less expensive but some of these large companies might be willing to invest the a little of the money they are saving in further development of already existing open source software to have a feature or 2 added. LAN services for the office. I'm sure people could imagine more uses for office environments that would benifit from using FreeBSD for their workstations. -- James "When you run 2 battelships into each other, they both sink."