The Open Source countdown has begun

Steve Nice, CTO of Reconnix, shares his views on the recent announcement by, Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, in which he outlined his plans to start shifting away from using proprietary Microsoft productivity applications in order to adopt more open source technologies. Steve highlights how this move could potentially save the public sector millions of pounds annually, and points out the key Open Source alternatives to proprietary software licenses.

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