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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Well, as we all know about Google Docs – your friendly, FREE, anywhere and anytime Office suite available – courtsey Google. Microsoft is set to release its own suit. Microsoft on 28th October 2008 showcased the web version of its office. That is according to most industry experts even laymen going for straight battle with Google Docs. Microsoft said Microsoft Office Web Applications would be available with Office 14, Gartner estimates it to be shipped near about year-end 2010..

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