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Re: [LUG] Bristol and f/LOSS ..

 

On 22/09/10 14:22, Gordon Henderson wrote:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/22/bristol_city_open_source_microsoft_mix/

Hmmm...

Gordon


This is the proverbial problem of switching from driving on the left to driving on the right. You cant phase it in across the whole country you have to do it in one "big bang".

Camborne district tried to go it alone with Sun / Star Office and found that while it made economic sense internally they were spending a fortune converting documents back to .doc format for external agencies (other councils, suppliers, customers etc.). In the end they went back to Microsoft :-(

The only way to sort this all out is a government directive that FORCES all councils to convert to ODF format and to only "purchase" office suites that conform to that standard by a certain date.

Tom.


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