On 29 de enero de 2014 23:24:16 GMT, Nigel Verity <nigelver...@hotmail.com> wrote: >I think that standardising on open formats is a significant step but it >is a long, long way from seeing the likes of LibreOffice running on the >typical civil servant's desktop. Without exception, the big UK >government FM contracts for IT provision and support are all let to >companies with a huge vested interest in maintaining their relationship >with Microsoft. If all that's being opened up is the use of ODF, >Microsoft will point out that they support ODF, though their >implementation is far from perfect, but that's no different from >LibreOffice's implementation of the DOCX format. > >In schools and elsewhere people are not taught "word processing". They >are taught explicitly how to use MS Word. Likewise with "spreadsheets" >and Excel. Although for most people the transition to LibreOffice would >be fairly trivial, the civil service would insist that everyone is >given conversion training. Microsoft could reasonably point to a high >cost of migration which, combined with the cost of Office pared back to >cost price or less, would see the company able to maintain its >stranglehold on government IT procurement. Civil servants can already >buy personal copies of Office Pro for well under £20. Think of the >price the government would get when ordering half a million copies. > >Nige > >------------------------------------------------------------------------
Didn't the city of Munich start with this some years ago? Now they seem to be almost completely on the other side. -- Enviado desde mi teléfono con K-9 Mail. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
