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And NOW, folks, for Canonical's next trick...
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Here's a pencil. Draw your own conclusions.
cf.:...
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Point truly missed. Both use a...
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This is an interesting development but I wonder why they are considering Staroffice rather than Openoffice.org as there are no significant differences for most users. I appreciate that educational users will pay only a small distribution charge but that adds up across the whole of Scotland. It would be quite easy for someone in the secretariat to download the freebie and send it out on CDs to schools along with the next set of government circulars. If they are going to send them a piece of paper saying they have negotiated an agreement with Sun they could as easily do this. Come to think of it they could send a copy to everybody in the country with their council tax demand - at least they would be getting something for their money. Most people only ever see software in shops and never realise that there are free alternatives.
StarOffice does have some functionalities OpenOffice doesn't have, but more importantly: It has Sun.
The contract no doubt includes installation and support.
For companies (and even more so governments) it is always important to have a single point where they can vent complaints and get support.
And although StarOffice isn't free, it isn't particularly expensive either (especially for educational institutions), so I can imagine that it already compounds a huge saving over MS Office while still getting services and support, something they wouldn't have if they would've chosen OpenOffice.
StarOffice does have some functionalities OpenOffice doesn't have, but more importantly: It has Sun.
The contract no doubt includes installation and support.
For companies (and even more so governments) it is always important to have a single point where they can vent complaints and get support.
And although StarOffice isn't free, it isn't particularly expensive either (especially for educational institutions), so I can imagine that it already compounds a huge saving over MS Office while still getting services and support, something they wouldn't have if they would've chosen OpenOffice.