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Henry Bremridge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 07:37:55PM +0100, Rob Beard wrote: >> Henry Bremridge wrote: > >> Aren't South Hams Council under Devon County Council? >> >> I very much doubt they've moved away from MS Office. Devon County >> Council was certainly a Microsoft shop when I was working there a couple >> of years back and I expect things haven't changed. >> >> Then again, maybe they might have looked at how Bristol City Council >> have implemented FLOSS. >> > > 1/ South Hams are under Devon County Council > 2/ I very much doubt they will move from MS at all rapidly > 3/ Sooner or later someone is going to do a back of envelope cost /benefit study > and wake up to the real savings in time and money > > The South Hams website is full of articles about how they want to save money and > spend it more effectively. They are going to have to start thinking about their > software decisions at some point > > Hopefully they will do. I bet a lot of those savings on M$ software could be put to better uses, okay probably not really cheaper council tax, but maybe spent on things like schools or other things in the area. I was thinking actually, a talk on Free software and it's benefits might be something that South Hams Radio might be interested in. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html