Novell has released a bunch of whitepapers in support of Open Source technologies over Microsoft products, hardly a surprise really but at least Novell outlines in it's documents why such a move would benefit you or your IT department. It outlines how SUSE Linux is more cost effective over Windows Vista and how Open Office is a good alternative to the Microsoft Office suite, mainly because it is free and can do just about all that its rival has to offer. The documents are all in PDF format, to read grab either Adobe PDF reader (free) or any other free alternative.

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Link: Decreasing your total cost of ownership
Link: Make the move to SUSE, Linux Enterprise Desktop
Link: Novell Support for Open Office over Microsoft Office


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(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by C_Guy on 27 Nov 2007 - 17:12
Everyone (except Novell, apparently) knows that Open Office offers a small fraction of the functionality of Microsoft Office. It's also been well-documented that Windows offers a better total cost of ownership than Linux.

Clearly someone forgot to Get The Facts before writing their whitepapers. Maybe they hired some guys from c|net to write them
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by vetmarkjensen on 27 Nov 2007 - 17:34
Quote - (C_Guy said @ #1)
Everyone (except Novell, apparently) knows that Open Office offers a small fraction of the functionality of Microsoft Office. It's also been well-documented that Windows offers a better total cost of ownership than Linux.

Clearly someone forgot to Get The Facts before writing their whitepapers. Maybe they hired some guys from c|net to write them
Oh, for crying-out-loud! You surely know that there are documents showing TCO going both ways. To state that Windows is better than Linux as a blanket statement is wrong (as most blanket statements are).

And, for what Office is used for here where I work, OO.o would do just as well for every single person I know (except the one guy here who is a bit of VBA wiz).

"Get the Facts", indeed. Even Microsoft has abandoned that name, and switched it to "compare". Compare studies. Do you own legwork. Come up with your own conclusion. Using just "facts" from Microsoft will lead to into buying guess what products....? Yup. You got it.
Quote this comment #1.2 Posted by night_stalker_z on 27 Nov 2007 - 19:19
Quote - (C_Guy said @ #1)
Everyone (except Novell, apparently) knows that Open Office offers a small fraction of the functionality of Microsoft Office. It's also been well-documented that Windows offers a better total cost of ownership than Linux.

Even if OpenOffice.org offers only a fraction of what Microsoft Office can do, it is usually enough for most casual users and its free as well. The total cost of ownership also depends on what you use it for.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by +GreyWolfSC on 28 Nov 2007 - 16:52
So Novell wants you to stop using their competitor's product and switch to one that they support instead? Wow, that's pretty informative.
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