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Story: Bristol Council says it can save £1m with open source
Posted by: Larry Sanders (Wednesday 3 May 2006, 6:49 PM)
Who to ask ...
> If Linux and Star Office is so great how
> come Central Scotland Police installed in
> and are now moving back to Microsoft?
Clueless here, so honestly what were the reasons they gave?
I am using OpenOffice on Windows, and for general day-to-day stuff it's certainly more than adequate. No problems using other peoples' MS Office Files, either.
Of course, I wouldn't be suprised of those guys were going beyond the ordinary day-to-day stuff, and just found it too difficultexpensice/etc to make the transfer.
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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
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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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