{"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<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Open%20Source%20saves%20Malaysian%20Government%20RM40%20million&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F01%2F12%2Fopen-source-saves-malaysian-government-rm40-million&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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