Open source saves Malaysia… money!

Colin Charles discusses the issue in his post “Open Source Saves Malaysian Government RM40 Million.”

(That’s $12 million US, a pretty impressive amount coming from software license fees.)

Charles’ source is the Open Malaysia Blog, whose original article I cannot access at the moment.

Fortunately, Charles provides the following informative quotes:

Savings on licensing fee alone by adopting OpenOffice.org have already exceeded RM12 million, which is based on the total installed seats of 12,760 at public sector agencies.

And:

The top three applications being considered by most Public Sector Agencies are:
1. OpenOffice.org – Office Suite
2. Firefox – Web Browser
3. MySQL – Database using Open Source Technology

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