open source in the press this week.
These 2 articles caught my interest this week.
- The UK opposition political party wants to use open source software for central and local government IT: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6430069.stm Nice idea, I doubt that they have costed the changeover costs though, which would be immense. Does anybody have an estimated methodology for calculating a ROI on migrating to Open Source?
- Dell are proposing to offer new PCs with open source preinstalled: http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/61771 and http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/28/dell_linux_computers/
I cannt help but think that within 5 years Microsoft will be a classic MBA strategy course case study as a company that abused a monopoly position and lost huge amounts of customer base as custoemrs revolted. Ubuntu is necessary for this transformation, lets hope that the Open Source movement gains credability with these 2 proposed moves.