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Title: Atul Chitnis Exocore Consulting


1
The Corporate OpenSource Desktop
  • Atul ChitnisExocore Consulting

2
About me
  • Technology Consultant
  • Appropriate Technologies
  • Exocore Consulting
  • Director and CTO
  • PCQuest
  • PCQ Linux Initiative
  • Linux OpenSource
  • Since 1994

3
Agenda
  • The Ultimate Battle
  • Perception v/s Reality
  • The Real State of Things

4
The Ultimate Battle
5
The Ultimate Battle
  • The Server Battle is over
  • Unix and Linux servers
  • Domination increasing

6
Perception v/s Reality
7
Perceptions
  • Servers are invisible
  • The Network is the Computer
  • The Desktop is the Computer

8
Perceptions
  • Visible side of computing
  • He who controls the desktop...
  • 250 Million Windows desktops
  • Applications and Services

9
Reality
  • Moving to the Web
  • Business functionality
  • Personal Productivity
  • PC Market has stagnated
  • Internet Devices are appearing
  • .NET is the new battle cry

10
Desktop Issues
  • Obsolescence of equipment
  • Licensing costs
  • Per seat
  • Per annum
  • Security issues
  • Viruses
  • Crackers
  • Applications

11
The Real State of Things
12
Meet Joe Ramaswamy
  • Age 27
  • Occupation Manager
  • Education Graduate
  • Experience 4 years
  • Computer Standard Pentium 3
  • Technical Savvy Enough to get by

13
Joe's Work PC Requirements
  • Wordprocessing
  • Spreadsheet
  • Presentations
  • Web Browsing
  • E-Mail
  • Instant Messaging
  • Accounting.

14
Additional Requirements
  • Affordable
  • Legal
  • Functional
  • Longlasting
  • Protected.

15
Will OpenSource do the Job?
16
Equivalent Applications
17
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.

18
Linux is ready for the Desktop
19
Who stands to benefit
  • Students
  • Homes
  • Businesses
  • Governments.

20
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

21
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

22
Questions?
  • Atul Chitnis
  • http//www.exocore.com
  • http//atulchitnis.net
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