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El sÃb, 20-03-2010 a las 18:36 +0000, Gordon Henderson escribiÃ: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, tom brough wrote: > > > Open Standards - importance of and leverage for buisness. > > The obvious is OpenOffice - but then if everyone has the same "standard" > then it all "just works". Future Proof (and backwards compatability) is > going to be important though - with Win Office 2xxx producing documents > Office 97 can't read for example. > > The other standard that I'm intersted in is telephony - in particular SIP. > [...] I would add: VPN. In my experience, when migrating to open source, the VPN technology in use can be a issue hard to beat (ie. Cisco VPN with certificates, not implemented by any OSS solution in Linux and relying in the Cisco VPN client is PITA). Cheers, Juanjo -- jjm's home: http://www.usebox.net/jjm/ blackshell: http://blackshell.usebox.net/ ramble on: http://rambleon.usebox.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html