Atul Chitnis Exocore Consulting

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The Corporate OpenSource Desktop

• Atul ChitnisExocore Consulting

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About me

• Technology Consultant
• Appropriate Technologies
• Exocore Consulting
• Director and CTO
• PCQuest
• PCQ Linux Initiative
• Linux OpenSource
• Since 1994

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Agenda

• The Ultimate Battle
• Perception v/s Reality
• The Real State of Things

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The Ultimate Battle
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The Ultimate Battle

• The Server Battle is over
• Unix and Linux servers
• Domination increasing

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Perception v/s Reality
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Perceptions

• Servers are invisible
• The Network is the Computer
• The Desktop is the Computer

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Perceptions

• Visible side of computing
• He who controls the desktop...
• 250 Million Windows desktops
• Applications and Services

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Reality

• Moving to the Web
• Business functionality
• Personal Productivity
• PC Market has stagnated
• Internet Devices are appearing
• .NET is the new battle cry

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Desktop Issues

• Obsolescence of equipment
• Licensing costs
• Per seat
• Per annum
• Security issues
• Viruses
• Crackers
• Applications

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The Real State of Things
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Meet Joe Ramaswamy

• Age 27
• Occupation Manager
• Education Graduate
• Experience 4 years
• Computer Standard Pentium 3
• Technical Savvy Enough to get by

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Joe's Work PC Requirements

• Wordprocessing
• Spreadsheet
• Presentations
• Web Browsing
• E-Mail
• Instant Messaging
• Accounting.

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Additional Requirements

• Affordable
• Legal
• Functional
• Longlasting
• Protected.

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Will OpenSource do the Job?
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Equivalent Applications
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And for those die-hards

• Linux can run Windows applications
• Microsoft Office
• Lotus Notes
• Games
• Applications ported to Linux
• e.g. Tally, Yahoo Messenger, Games, etc.

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Linux is ready for the Desktop
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Who stands to benefit

• Students
• Homes
• Businesses
• Governments.

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What you need to do

• Try it.
• Don't listen to motivated vendors
• Ignore marketing terms
• Total Cost of Ownership
• Return on Investment
• Real Cost of Ownership

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About this presentation

• This presentation was done under
• RedHat Linux 8.0
• Using
• OpenOffice 1.01
• on a
• IBM Thinkpad 770 (from 1997)
• Pentium 1, 233 MHz, 128 MB RAM

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Questions?

• Atul Chitnis
• http//www.exocore.com
• http//atulchitnis.net