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Re: [LUG] Potential presentation to TDA

 

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

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