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Orange has launched a range of mobile-broadband packages for small to medium-sized enterprises, bundling a free laptop with the dongle-based connectivity.

“For example, in a desktop environment in which users just need a simple web interface, basic word processing and a spreadsheet, an open source package such as Ubuntu running OpenOffice would be perfect.

These users don’t need the bells and whistles of a Microsoft Office.”

I've just been talking to a small local business that uses Apple Macs exclusively for all their computing needs.

Two EU-funded projects in the area of Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS), namely OpenTTT and FLOSSMETRICS, have recently published a F/OSS guide for SMEs.

Different types of software applications and businesses are addressed, making this guide useful for most SMEs that wish to simply use F/OSS or even build a F/OSS-based business approach.