OSS for companies: Price of the software and consequences of it

II-2.1.2-Price of the software and consequences of it


139 euros is the price of the suite office of Windows.

0 euros is the price of the OpenOffice suite office which contained the same functionalities as Microsoft Office but with two extra applications.

Because of this high difference of price, the use of OpenOffice.org comes to be more and more generalized, this is for example the case in the French admnistration

Some figures found on the Internet said that in 2004 OpenOffice had 14,3% of the market according to a Forrester Reserch study made on140 large North American companies .

OpenOffice.org becomes progressively a reference suite office software in the field of education,admnistration and the professional world.