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Story: Bristol Council says it can save £1m with open source
Posted by: rick stockton (Friday 31 March 2006, 8:08 AM)
And a large portion of the Training Costs are a one-time event, while the MS treadmill would keep sucking in money long after the 5-year study period is over.
Still: the #1 consideration should be the *FULLY* Documented Open FIle Formats, not the money. MS has offered all kinds of sneaky deals "we'll give you documentation, but you can't let anyone else see it" to other Government entities, and quite a few have foolishly let MS jerk them around. When MS locks the data away in proprietary file formats and proprietary files systems (think winFS, and start thinking --> NOW
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Story: Bristol Council says it can save £1m with open source
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Thats great I dont know why more public sectors do... Gary Kind -
Let's see how long before the MS Lobbying power is... dukeinlondon
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I expect M$ to counter with a ridiculous low price... Oldator
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And a large portion of the Training Costs are a on... rick stockton -
As everyone knows the licence cost is only a small... Charles Lancaster
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Who to ask ... Larry Sanders -
Charles, you're jumping to (costly) conclusions.
Q... Arthur B.
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Please, be so kind and come back to the users afte... Atxamd
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