Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 22, 2003 10:34 PM
The bottom line, though, is that UP simply can't afford 12 million Phillipines Pesos (about $223,300 US) to upgrade from MS Office 97 to Office 2000, and cannot afford to spend 8,000 Phillines Pesos (about $149) per computer to upgrade to the latest version of Windows.
Don't forget to add 25 million pesos or so for new hardware once it is discovered that Office 2000 + WinXP is sloooow on '97-'98 era hardware.
Remember:
1) New Windows OS needs 2) New Windows apps needs 3) New Hardware needs 1)
With Open Source you can tailor your apps to your hardware rather than upgrading everything.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 22, 2003 10:34 PMDon't forget to add 25 million pesos or so for new hardware once it is discovered that Office 2000 + WinXP is sloooow on '97-'98 era hardware.
Remember:
1) New Windows OS needs
2) New Windows apps needs
3) New Hardware needs 1)
With Open Source you can tailor your apps to your hardware rather than upgrading everything.
-bertox
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