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On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:03 +0000, Tony Sumner wrote: > On Nov 19, 2007, james kilty was like: > > > I am about to write to various Cornwall Councillors on the matter. It > > would be useful to have some parameters from you good folks to raise. > > My first thought was that the offer to 'consider' open source leaves > it open for them to say 'we have considered OS but we have to put a > high priority on security and reliability' and turn it down. We need > to head them off. Exactly. If we offer criteria and say how we believe GL to be superior, then they will have to disagree or say where their priorities lay. I will suggest this is an opportunity and at least (off the cuff before I get my daughter off the school bus) efficiency, file size, computer life, file format compatibility (with EU standards and Govermnent preference), freedom to develop in-house programmes for any specialist function and share developments with other Authorities, server quality (has not MS discovered how to do networking this century whereas GL was born with it). I am sure more will come to mind. -- james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- 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