1. Open Curaçao? 2009 10 27 Presentation Caribbean ICT Roadshow Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. © 2009 Suares & Co NV This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. Free Software for SME

2. What are these numbers? United States 0.19 Netherlands0.28 Argentina 0.94 Costa Rica 1.62 Dominican Rep. 2.69 Suriname 3.73 Ecuador 4.81 Ethiopia 70.96

3. How many months you need to work to pay for Windows XP + MS Office! Source: http://tinyurl.com/winxp-cost-per-country-2001

4. How hard you need to work for FREE SOFTWARE

5. How Can Software be Free? Free as in... Beer?

8. Who is using Free Software (on Curaçao)? FPI, FAJ, Directie Financiën, RKCS, Isla...

9. Who is considering using Free Software (on Curaçao)?

10. - no license costs - may copy and redistribute - safe, reliable - competitive - changeable, translatable - easy download and install http://opencuracao.com

13. Freedom 0 The freedom to run the program, for any purpose...

14. Freedom 1 The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.

15. Freedom 2 The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs...

16. Freedom 2

17. Freedom 3 The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor...

18. We use open source daily more then 60% of all websites runs on open source servers

19. We use open source daily Facebook is written in PHP, an Open Source Computer Language.

20. We use open source daily Google is using, and giving away, open source code

21. Increasing Market Acceptance Department of Defense of the USA: “Open-source software is part of the integrated network fabric which connects and enables our command and control system to work effectively, as people's lives depend on it. When we rolled into Baghdad, we did it using open source.”

22. Increasing Market Acceptance - Dell, IBM/Lenovo. HP/Compaq, all deliver pre installed Linux systems. - IBM runs within the organisation Microsoft Free. It puts millions USD into Open Source software development. - Reuters, New York Stock Exchange, Royal Bank of Scotland, Royal Shell... London Stock Exchange just moved from MS to Linux. Millions of USD are traded!

23. YES... even them!

24. But what can I do? - Inform yourself. Go to websites, ask people! - Go for easy win-win situations. Firefox (web), Thunderbird (email), OpenOffice (Office) runs on all computers (Mac, Win, Lin). Try it out! - Investigate possible next steps. What apps are you using that you really need to pay for? - Eliminate all pirated software and paid software - Hire people to make open software for you. Translate. Code. Report Bugs. Discuss. Promote!

25. A short list of what's available... ● Open Office.org (Complete Office Suite) ● FireFox, Thunderbird, Mozilla: Browse & E-mail ● GIMP, PDFCreator, Digikam ● Operating Systems (Novell, Red Hat, Debian) ● File and Printservers (Samba), Mailserver ● CrossOver (Quickbooks)

26. ● Privacy (GnuPG, USB encryption) ● Firewalls, Routers, AntiVirus, AntiSpam ● Asterix (Free PBX System) ● Terminal Server (very cheap for schools!) ● Webservers (Apache, NginX) ● Content Management Systems (Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, QwikZite) A short list of what's available...

27. ● Finance (GNUcash, KMyMoney) ● CRM and ERP (Compiere, OpenERP) ● Ticket System (OTRS) ● Webshops (Zencart, Magento) ● Databases (MySQL, Firebird, SQLite) A short list of what's available...

28. But what can I do? SAVE MONE Y!

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