[wplug] Pittsburgh's Maronda Homes uses Linux and OOo

[Ghataora, Hardeep]

It mentions a loose migration plan to LINUX at the bottom of the email. 

H

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Galik [mailto:chris at cardiactelecom.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:17 AM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] Pittsburgh's Maronda Homes uses Linux and OOo




On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 16:02, Vance Kochenderfer wrote:
>    "We found it very difficult to keep up with all the licenses," says
>    Piccolo. "We took an inventory and decided we had the choice of
>    purchasing all the licenses to become compliant or make the switch
to
>    OpenOffice."
...
>    Pittsburgh-based Maronda Homes now runs desktop applications on its
>    550 PCs with OpenOffice, Linux software downloaded off the Web from
>    www.openoffice.org. Maronda is also using commercial server
software
>    software from Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) on its AS/400 mid-range server
>    to manage its networked applications. The move has saved Maronda in
>    excess of $300,000 on annual licensing fees for Microsoft (Nasdaq:
>    MSFT) Office and server maintenance costs.

Okay, maybe I'm reading this wrong, but what I get from this is that
this company is running OpenOffice.org on their Windows computers, and
running RH on their server.  Maybe I'm just reading it wrong?  Don't get
me wrong, I'm glad they made the switch... if I managed to get everyone
in my office to run OOo my life would be a lot easier (I could quit
sending out attachments in both calc and excel formats for one) but it
doesn't seem to me like they have completely switched over to Linux. 
Anyone else have some input?

-c.


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