Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......

2013-07-31 Thread J Fernyhough
On 31 July 2013 22:03, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote: > > Goverment has bigger contacts with huge service companies and those can > still be broken. > I avoided commenting until now, but realistically any UK Government contract is locked down to one of the normal "preferred bidders" precisely due

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......

2013-07-31 Thread Muñiz Piniella , Andrés
El 31/07/2013 22:15, "Bill B." escribió: > > On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 22:03 +0100, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote: > > About training: At the end all most of what people use is a web > > browser. > > http://www.xkcd.com/934/ > > I think you'll find office environments have slightly different > consider

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......

2013-07-31 Thread Bill B.
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 22:03 +0100, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote: > About training: At the end all most of what people use is a web > browser. > http://www.xkcd.com/934/ I think you'll find office environments have slightly different considerations & ideas on that! -- Bill B. [SuperEngineer] --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......

2013-07-31 Thread Muñiz Piniella , Andrés
El 31/07/2013 21:29, "SuperEngineer" escribió: > > On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 20:42 +0100, Pete wrote: > > I guess most if not everyone out there know that Governments use > > Windows > > XP (Uk Gov't) and that it costs quite a huge amount to pay in bulk > > licenses, including local councils. Does any

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......

2013-07-31 Thread SuperEngineer
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 20:42 +0100, Pete wrote: > I guess most if not everyone out there know that Governments use > Windows > XP (Uk Gov't) and that it costs quite a huge amount to pay in bulk > licenses, including local councils. Does anyone know how much these > bulk > licenses cost and how ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think

2013-07-31 Thread Nigel Verity
On the face of it the use of a GNU/Linux-based OS in place of Windows ought to be attractive. Unfortunately, things are not quite so simple. The amount the government (national and local) pays to Microsoft per seat, for both OS and applications, is minisule, compared to what you or I would expec

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......

2013-07-31 Thread Les Pounder
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Pete wrote: > I guess most if not everyone out there know that Governments use Windows > XP (Uk Gov't) and that it costs quite a huge amount to pay in bulk licenses, > including local councils. Does anyone know how much these bulk licenses > cost and how many the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......

2013-07-31 Thread Pete
I guess most if not everyone out there know that Governments use Windows XP (Uk Gov't) and that it costs quite a huge amount to pay in bulk licenses, including local councils. Does anyone know how much these bulk licenses cost and how many the UK Gov't