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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Julian Hall wrote:
This is essentially the point I made to my MP. I think the majority of council/government users will be bog standard Office type users. Ease of migrating them to Open Office/Thunderbird/Firefox.. pretty high. For
It tends to be a problem with so called "Total Cost of Ownership" issues that costs can be anything but "total". e.g. Claiming that changing between MS Office and OpenOffice.org or between MSIE and Firefox is difficult and costly. Whilst ignoring that changing between MS Office versions can have all sorts of possible costs. As can changing between MSIE version, most notably with IE6. Even from user POV is a change from XP to Vista/7 any less of a shock than changing from XP to Gnome/KDE?
example the 650 MPs could all have net tops running Linux instead of full blown laptops running Windows. Yes Henry's right - some machines will have to remain Windows based, but does that mean they still have to run Microsoft Office? Even if they can't save the Windows license fee they *can* save all the MS Office licenses.
Even at educational prices a class set of MSOffice is in excess of £1,000. That's before you even factor in the costs of processing the order.
Also I think you can off-set some of the costs against the saving in hardware - with every new Windows release there is a leap in the hardware required to run it. Linux in comparison uses lower spec
Also Microsoft likes to change things about Windows and Office. In ways which affect both end users and administrators. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkwBPCUACgkQsoRLMhsZpFdCKQCfSMZMXeT+1hM122jEjsLs17rU OSAAn0Nmls7SrsLYoX3QvO97bvafYhTV =0/UL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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