Re: [LUG] Bristol Council moving to StarOffice

On 2/24/06, Aaron Trevena < aaron.trevena@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just read http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/02/23/bristol_migration.html?page=2
>
> and thought.. 'if only cornwall county council had a fraction of that clue'.
>
> Bristol of course, has frozen council tax, while Cornwall County
> Council has yet another rise of over twice inflation...
>
> I wonder how much Devon and Cornwall Council would benefit from moving
> to Star/OpenOffice..
>
> Having seen parish council staff paying to get copying and stapling
> done Staples rather than do it themselves, I think their laziness is
> probably costing us a fortune.
>
> I have yet to hear a single positive word about any council down here
> (cornwall) - CCC is shockingly awful - their website still requires IE
> to apply for jobs (after 3 years of being a beta), and they seem
> intent on killing newquay airport (no morning stansted flights, no
> malaga flights), while lavishing generous expenses on councillors.
>
> I've heard all kinds of second hand rumours about their IT competance,
> and what I've seen of them makes it entirely believable that they are
> wasting a fortune.
>
> A.
>
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I did work experience with the Council in september and the entire time of their tech support group is devoted to reinstalling Windows on the clients, installing £2000 servers every few days, etc etc... They're totally M$-owned and even go so far as to banning employees from putting a Tux in their email sigs, from what I saw. (Other images were OK, afaik.) Our libraries are terrible: they have brand-new, flashy WinXP boxes which do nothing other than telnet to the server in text mode... It's just like MFI.