Today Economic Times reported about the benefits of FOSS as analyzed by a study according to the Professor Rahul De of IIM Bangaloare. That’s good, superb we already knew about the benefits of FOSS, but yes now we have a study backed up by one of the geniuses of the country. However isn’t it that it has already been there? The LIC using it, or the Govt. of Kerala leveraging the benefits FOSS Technologies. Same goes with corporates, they have always preferred Sendmail over Microsoft Exchange, and Linux over Windows and more and more FOSS when it comes to Server technologies. Organizations have been using OpenOffice.ORG from past so many years to save upon their costs.

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We all use internet, yet we are unaware of it’s power & it’s features and only a fraction of it is utilized. We are constantly working on Word Documents, Spreadsheets and most of all – The Presentations. All of us must be using Microsoft’s products (OpenOffice.Org or StarOffice in extereme cases) but do they offer the power of collaboration.!! For this very reason I would like to turn your attention towards the world’s best office suite – Google Docs.

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