{"id":1269,"date":"2009-01-12T22:07:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T03:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2009-01-12T22:07:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T03:07:17","slug":"open-source-saves-malaysian-government-rm40-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/12\/open-source-saves-malaysian-government-rm40-million","title":{"rendered":"Open Source saves Malaysian Government RM40 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Dinesh pointed us out to the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openmalaysiablog.com\/2009\/01\/mampu-oscc-achieves-savings-of-rm40m-with-open-source.html\">MAMPU\/OSCC saves RM40 million with open source<\/a>. That&#8217;s about USD$12 million dollars!<\/p>\n<p>I quote, from the report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSavings 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.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, from the same report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe top three applications being considered by most Public Sector Agencies are:<br \/>\n1. OpenOffice.org \u2014 Office Suite<br \/>\n2. Firefox \u2014 Web Browser<br \/>\n3. MySQL \u2014 Database using Open Source Technology\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is impressive. OpenOffice.org and MySQL both come from Sun Microsystems Inc. Of course I&#8217;ve known this for a long time coming, but seeing it in B&#038;W (ok, a colour report!) is of course, most useful. Go on, and read their <a href=\"http:\/\/knowledge.oscc.org.my\/newsletters\/first-quarterly-e-newsletter-jan-2009\/view\">first quarterly newsletter<\/a>. More savings to come, I&#8217;m certain in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Dinesh pointed us out to the fact that MAMPU\/OSCC saves RM40 million with open source. That&#8217;s about USD$12 million dollars! I quote, from the report: 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. Also, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[274,1775,370],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","tag-firefox","tag-mysql","tag-openofficeorg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-kt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}