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In a recent followup (<a href="http://www.osor.eu/news/fr-gendarmerie-saves-millions-with-open-desktop-and-web-applications"><em>Gendarmerie Saves Millions With Open Desktop and Web Applications</em></a>), <a href="http://www.osor.eu/">OSOR.eu</a> finds the Gendarmerie continues to succeed with its open source strategy:</p> +<blockquote><p><span id="parent-fieldname-description">The French Gendarmerie&#8217;s gradual migration to a complete open source desktop and web applications has saved millions of euro, says Lieutenant-Colonel Xavier Guimard. &#8220;This year the IT budget will be reduced by 70 percent. This will not affect our IT systems.&#8221; </span></p></blockquote> +<p><span>The migration still continues now, as new systems are bought to replace older machines. In this way, change is managed as a gradual process, while the general rule against buying new software licenses (using legacy licenses until they are replaced with open source) means that money is being saved immediately.</span></p> +<blockquote><p>&#8220;If one of us wants a new PC, it comes with Ubuntu. This encourages our users to migrate.&#8221; Guimard estimates Gendarmerie since 2004 has saved 50 million euro on licences for standard office applications, hardware and maintenance.</p> +<p>The decision in 2004 to move to open source, was raised by one of the Gendarmerie&#8217;s accountants. &#8220;Microsoft was forcing us to buy new software licences. This annoyed our accountant, who tried OpenOffice.&#8221; According to Guimard the proprietary software maker then started lobbying the Gendarmerie, which is how the general manager found out about the experiments. &#8220;When he saw OpenOffice worked just as well and was available for free, it was he that decided it should be installed on all 90,000 desktops.&#8221;</p></blockquote> +<p>After sampling open source with OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird, the Gendarmerie took another step and migrated to Linux as well.</p> +<blockquote><p>In 2007 the Gendarmerie decided to replace even the desktop operating system. Guimard: &#8220;Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users. Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority.&#8221;</p></blockquote> +<blockquote></blockquote></content> + <author> + <name>Benjamin Horst</name> + <uri>http://www.solidoffice.com</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org</title> + <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> + <updated>2009-03-19T18:00:28+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry> <title type="html">New: OOo-DEV 3.1 Developer Snapshot (build OOO310_m6) available</title> <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_18"/> @@ -25,7 +51,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-03-19T12:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-19T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -152,7 +178,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-03-19T12:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-19T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -173,7 +199,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-03-19T12:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-19T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -240,7 +266,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2009-03-17T18:00:25+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-19T18:00:28+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -262,7 +288,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-03-19T12:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-19T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -286,7 +312,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2009-03-17T18:00:25+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-19T18:00:28+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -459,7 +485,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-03-19T12:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-19T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -506,7 +532,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2009-03-17T18:00:25+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-19T18:00:28+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -542,7 +568,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-03-19T12:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-03-19T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -567,45 +593,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Thirty years old and still no Tom-Tomâ¦</title> - <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/"/> - <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/</id> - <updated>2009-03-03T13:35:56+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p><a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/HADOPI" title="HADOPI - Le Net en France : black-out"><img src="http://media.laquadrature.net/Quadrature_black-out_HADOPI_728x90px.gif" border="0" alt="HADOPI - Le Net en France : black-out" /></a></p> -<p>Today I am thirty. And today, I have decided I would post a blog that would not be different from the my other posts. How&#8217;s that for genuine originality? So today&#8217;s topic will be a round-up of news on OpenDocument Format (ODF). It has been a long time I haven&#8217;t updated this area.</p> -<p>&nbsp;</p> -<ul> -<li> -<p>ODF 1.2 is well underway. The arrival of a flurry of new members inside the ODF Technical Committee who have illustrated themselves as proponents of OOXML is a bit fun to watch I must say. But I have to command the general serenity of the Committee and its chairs, Rob Weir and Michael Brauer for their quiet and effective management of the proceedings. I think the only thing that is to be hoped for is that we can finish the completion of this ODF sub-version. Also, and of some interest, I can only recommend <a href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/">the reading of the archives of the Committee&#8217;s discussions online</a> where interesting concepts on extensions and conformance are being discussed.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>Some « lighter » news but as serious: the future of ODF does not just depend on the OASIS ODF Technical Committee. It depends on you. You are encouraged to provide ideas for the future versions of ODF « ODF-Next » . The Committee has wanted this to be inclusive of everyone&#8217;s participation as explained <a href="http://opendocument.xml.org/news/oasis-welcomes-input-for-odf-next">here</a>.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>We did know that at some point in time, Microsoft Office would support ODF. It seems the wait is <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2008/10/22/announcing-service-pack-2-sp2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system.aspx">almost over these days</a>. You will recall I was originally very supportive of the idea of Microsoft Office natively supporting ODF; then, I took some time reading the fine print and I grew a bit wary of what the Microsoft engineers were saying about the limits their implementation of ODF would be constrained to. At this point in time we do not have the Service Pack 2 of Microsoft Office 2007. What we do know however, is a couple of things that got me thinking: ODF support will only be available in the latest, patched version of Microsoft Office 2007. It will have some limitations and the feature will not be put prominently in the hands of the users, so to speak. I wonder why ODF shouldn&#8217;t be Microsoft Office&#8217;s default format or if the default configuration would be more effective with an icon on the user interface. After all, ODF is an ISO standard and people, governments, businesses demand it (at this stage it&#8217;s not even clear if OOXML was even requested by anyone who was not already part of Ecma and had vested interests in siding on with Microsoft&#8230;), so why not make that jump?</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>This also got me thinking: <em>ODF support in MS Office is a good idea.</em> <span>Don&#8217;t get me wrong on this. I wish however were extended to other products of the Microsoft stack, such as Sharepoint, Microsoft Dynamics and even Microsoft Internet Explorer. Why? I do not advocate this strategic move with ulterior motives of having Microsoft fail. Precisely not: The only way for Microsoft to survive is to embrace Open Standards, transparency and perhaps Open Source in some way. So let Microsoft do it the whole way. If the market demands ODF, let it have it and let it have a real choice, where Microsoft would actually be a compelling one for good. I am confident Microsoft folks are having some discussion on this internally. But there is at the very least two sides inside the company, and any attempt to play well with the Open Source Community (for the sake of not playing fair with the Free Software part of the community) is unfortunately matched by opposite and hostile moves.</span></p> -</li> -<li> -<p> <span>Which brings me to the Microsoft vs. Tom-Tom case. This is one more story where software patents hamper innovation. Add to this the general timing of the case: Tom-Tom is an European company operating in the automotive industry. You can understand now why the European Union has to stand firmly by its automotive sector&#8230;</span></p> -</li> -</ul> -<p><br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=117&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_117" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></content> - <author> - <name>Charles Schulz</name> - <uri>http://standardsandfreedom.net</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings</title> - <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> - <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2009-03-19T00:00:17+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1651&r2=1.1652 Delta lines: +23 -37 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-03-19 12:01:31+0000 1.1651 +++ index.html 2009-03-19 18:01:27+0000 1.1652 @@ -36,8 +36,30 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: March 19, 2009 12:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: March 19, 2009 06:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>March 19, 2009</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> +Benjamin Horst</a> : +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1064";> +Franceâs Gendarmerie Saves Millions with Open Source</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>Several years ago, the French Gendarmerie police force began its migration to open source for the 90,000 desktop computers used by its 105,000 police officers. In a recent followup (<a href="http://www.osor.eu/news/fr-gendarmerie-saves-millions-with-open-desktop-and-web-applications";><em>Gendarmerie Saves Millions With Open Desktop and Web Applications</em></a>), <a href="http://www.osor.eu/";>OSOR.eu</a> finds the Gendarmerie continues to succeed with its open source strategy:</p> +<blockquote><p><span id="parent-fieldname-description">The French Gendarmerie’s gradual migration to a complete open source desktop and web applications has saved millions of euro, says Lieutenant-Colonel Xavier Guimard. “This year the IT budget will be reduced by 70 percent. This will not affect our IT systems.” </span></p></blockquote> +<p><span>The migration still continues now, as new systems are bought to replace older machines. In this way, change is managed as a gradual process, while the general rule against buying new software licenses (using legacy licenses until they are replaced with open source) means that money is being saved immediately.</span></p> +<blockquote><p>“If one of us wants a new PC, it comes with Ubuntu. This encourages our users to migrate.” Guimard estimates Gendarmerie since 2004 has saved 50 million euro on licences for standard office applications, hardware and maintenance.</p> +<p>The decision in 2004 to move to open source, was raised by one of the Gendarmerie’s accountants. “Microsoft was forcing us to buy new software licences. This annoyed our accountant, who tried OpenOffice.” According to Guimard the proprietary software maker then started lobbying the Gendarmerie, which is how the general manager found out about the experiments. “When he saw OpenOffice worked just as well and was available for free, it was he that decided it should be installed on all 90,000 desktops.”</p></blockquote> +<p>After sampling open source with OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird, the Gendarmerie took another step and migrated to Linux as well.</p> +<blockquote><p>In 2007 the Gendarmerie decided to replace even the desktop operating system. Guimard: “Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users. Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority.”</p></blockquote> +<blockquote></blockquote></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1064";>by Benjamin Horst at March 19, 2009 02:25 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>March 18, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> @@ -517,42 +539,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> -Charles Schulz</a> : -<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/";> -Thirty years old and still no Tom-Tomâ¦</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p><a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/HADOPI"; title="HADOPI - Le Net en France : black-out"><img src="http://media.laquadrature.net/Quadrature_black-out_HADOPI_728x90px.gif"; border="0" alt="HADOPI - Le Net en France : black-out" /></a></p> -<p>Today I am thirty. And today, I have decided I would post a blog that would not be different from the my other posts. How’s that for genuine originality? So today’s topic will be a round-up of news on OpenDocument Format (ODF). It has been a long time I haven’t updated this area.</p> -<p> </p> -<ul> -<li> -<p>ODF 1.2 is well underway. The arrival of a flurry of new members inside the ODF Technical Committee who have illustrated themselves as proponents of OOXML is a bit fun to watch I must say. But I have to command the general serenity of the Committee and its chairs, Rob Weir and Michael Brauer for their quiet and effective management of the proceedings. I think the only thing that is to be hoped for is that we can finish the completion of this ODF sub-version. Also, and of some interest, I can only recommend <a href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/";>the reading of the archives of the Committee’s discussions online</a> where interesting concepts on extensions and conformance are being discussed.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>Some « lighter » news but as serious: the future of ODF does not just depend on the OASIS ODF Technical Committee. It depends on you. You are encouraged to provide ideas for the future versions of ODF « ODF-Next » . The Committee has wanted this to be inclusive of everyone’s participation as explained <a href="http://opendocument.xml.org/news/oasis-welcomes-input-for-odf-next";>here</a>.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>We did know that at some point in time, Microsoft Office would support ODF. It seems the wait is <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2008/10/22/announcing-service-pack-2-sp2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system.aspx";>almost over these days</a>. You will recall I was originally very supportive of the idea of Microsoft Office natively supporting ODF; then, I took some time reading the fine print and I grew a bit wary of what the Microsoft engineers were saying about the limits their implementation of ODF would be constrained to. At this point in time we do not have the Service Pack 2 of Microsoft Office 2007. What we do know however, is a couple of things that got me thinking: ODF support will only be available in the latest, patched version of Microsoft Office 2007. It will have some limitations and the feature will not be put prominently in the hands of the users, so to speak. I wonder why ODF shouldn’t be Microsoft Office’s default format or if the default configuration would be more effective with an icon on the user interface. After all, ODF is an ISO standard and people, governments, businesses demand it (at this stage it’s not even clear if OOXML was even requested by anyone who was not already part of Ecma and had vested interests in siding on with Microsoft…), so why not make that jump?</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>This also got me thinking: <em>ODF support in MS Office is a good idea.</em> <span>Don’t get me wrong on this. I wish however were extended to other products of the Microsoft stack, such as Sharepoint, Microsoft Dynamics and even Microsoft Internet Explorer. Why? I do not advocate this strategic move with ulterior motives of having Microsoft fail. Precisely not: The only way for Microsoft to survive is to embrace Open Standards, transparency and perhaps Open Source in some way. So let Microsoft do it the whole way. If the market demands ODF, let it have it and let it have a real choice, where Microsoft would actually be a compelling one for good. I am confident Microsoft folks are having some discussion on this internally. But there is at the very least two sides inside the company, and any attempt to play well with the Open Source Community (for the sake of not playing fair with the Free Software part of the community) is unfortunately matched by opposite and hostile moves.</span></p> -</li> -<li> -<p> <span>Which brings me to the Microsoft vs. Tom-Tom case. This is one more story where software patents hamper innovation. Add to this the general timing of the case: Tom-Tom is an European company operating in the automotive industry. You can understand now why the European Union has to stand firmly by its automotive sector…</span></p> -</li> -</ul> -<p><br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=117&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_117" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/";>by Charles at March 03, 2009 01:35 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.1644&r2=1.1645 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-03-19 12:01:31+0000 1.1644 +++ opml.xml 2009-03-19 18:01:27+0000 1.1645 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:00:28 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:00:29 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.681&r2=1.682 Delta lines: +14 -29 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-03-19 12:01:31+0000 1.681 +++ rss10.xml 2009-03-19 18:01:27+0000 1.682 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1064"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/76bf3e8211cb9cb2" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=651"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/103f6811c256432e" /> @@ -32,11 +33,23 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1048"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/7b2eb0109d3da085" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7888011759649598452" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1064";> + <title>Benjamin Horst: Franceâs Gendarmerie Saves Millions with Open Source</title> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1064</link> + <content:encoded><p>Several years ago, the French Gendarmerie police force began its migration to open source for the 90,000 desktop computers used by its 105,000 police officers. In a recent followup (<a href="http://www.osor.eu/news/fr-gendarmerie-saves-millions-with-open-desktop-and-web-applications"><em>Gendarmerie Saves Millions With Open Desktop and Web Applications</em></a>), <a href="http://www.osor.eu/">OSOR.eu</a> finds the Gendarmerie continues to succeed with its open source strategy:</p> +<blockquote><p><span id="parent-fieldname-description">The French Gendarmerie&#8217;s gradual migration to a complete open source desktop and web applications has saved millions of euro, says Lieutenant-Colonel Xavier Guimard. &#8220;This year the IT budget will be reduced by 70 percent. This will not affect our IT systems.&#8221; </span></p></blockquote> +<p><span>The migration still continues now, as new systems are bought to replace older machines. In this way, change is managed as a gradual process, while the general rule against buying new software licenses (using legacy licenses until they are replaced with open source) means that money is being saved immediately.</span></p> +<blockquote><p>&#8220;If one of us wants a new PC, it comes with Ubuntu. This encourages our users to migrate.&#8221; Guimard estimates Gendarmerie since 2004 has saved 50 million euro on licences for standard office applications, hardware and maintenance.</p> +<p>The decision in 2004 to move to open source, was raised by one of the Gendarmerie&#8217;s accountants. &#8220;Microsoft was forcing us to buy new software licences. This annoyed our accountant, who tried OpenOffice.&#8221; According to Guimard the proprietary software maker then started lobbying the Gendarmerie, which is how the general manager found out about the experiments. &#8220;When he saw OpenOffice worked just as well and was available for free, it was he that decided it should be installed on all 90,000 desktops.&#8221;</p></blockquote> +<p>After sampling open source with OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird, the Gendarmerie took another step and migrated to Linux as well.</p> +<blockquote><p>In 2007 the Gendarmerie decided to replace even the desktop operating system. Guimard: &#8220;Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users. Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority.&#8221;</p></blockquote> +<blockquote></blockquote></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-03-19T14:25:43+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/76bf3e8211cb9cb2"> <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.1 Developer Snapshot (build OOO310_m6) available</title> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_18</link> @@ -360,33 +373,5 @@ <dc:date>2009-03-03T14:44:04+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/";> - <title>Charles Schulz: Thirty years old and still no Tom-Tomâ¦</title> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/</link> - <content:encoded><p><a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/HADOPI" title="HADOPI - Le Net en France : black-out"><img src="http://media.laquadrature.net/Quadrature_black-out_HADOPI_728x90px.gif" border="0" alt="HADOPI - Le Net en France : black-out" /></a></p> -<p>Today I am thirty. And today, I have decided I would post a blog that would not be different from the my other posts. How&#8217;s that for genuine originality? So today&#8217;s topic will be a round-up of news on OpenDocument Format (ODF). It has been a long time I haven&#8217;t updated this area.</p> -<p>&nbsp;</p> -<ul> -<li> -<p>ODF 1.2 is well underway. The arrival of a flurry of new members inside the ODF Technical Committee who have illustrated themselves as proponents of OOXML is a bit fun to watch I must say. But I have to command the general serenity of the Committee and its chairs, Rob Weir and Michael Brauer for their quiet and effective management of the proceedings. I think the only thing that is to be hoped for is that we can finish the completion of this ODF sub-version. Also, and of some interest, I can only recommend <a href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/">the reading of the archives of the Committee&#8217;s discussions online</a> where interesting concepts on extensions and conformance are being discussed.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>Some « lighter » news but as serious: the future of ODF does not just depend on the OASIS ODF Technical Committee. It depends on you. You are encouraged to provide ideas for the future versions of ODF « ODF-Next » . The Committee has wanted this to be inclusive of everyone&#8217;s participation as explained <a href="http://opendocument.xml.org/news/oasis-welcomes-input-for-odf-next">here</a>.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>We did know that at some point in time, Microsoft Office would support ODF. It seems the wait is <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2008/10/22/announcing-service-pack-2-sp2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system.aspx">almost over these days</a>. You will recall I was originally very supportive of the idea of Microsoft Office natively supporting ODF; then, I took some time reading the fine print and I grew a bit wary of what the Microsoft engineers were saying about the limits their implementation of ODF would be constrained to. At this point in time we do not have the Service Pack 2 of Microsoft Office 2007. What we do know however, is a couple of things that got me thinking: ODF support will only be available in the latest, patched version of Microsoft Office 2007. It will have some limitations and the feature will not be put prominently in the hands of the users, so to speak. I wonder why ODF shouldn&#8217;t be Microsoft Office&#8217;s default format or if the default configuration would be more effective with an icon on the user interface. After all, ODF is an ISO standard and people, governments, businesses demand it (at this stage it&#8217;s not even clear if OOXML was even requested by anyone who was not already part of Ecma and had vested interests in siding on with Microsoft&#8230;), so why not make that jump?</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>This also got me thinking: <em>ODF support in MS Office is a good idea.</em> <span>Don&#8217;t get me wrong on this. I wish however were extended to other products of the Microsoft stack, such as Sharepoint, Microsoft Dynamics and even Microsoft Internet Explorer. Why? I do not advocate this strategic move with ulterior motives of having Microsoft fail. Precisely not: The only way for Microsoft to survive is to embrace Open Standards, transparency and perhaps Open Source in some way. So let Microsoft do it the whole way. If the market demands ODF, let it have it and let it have a real choice, where Microsoft would actually be a compelling one for good. I am confident Microsoft folks are having some discussion on this internally. But there is at the very least two sides inside the company, and any attempt to play well with the Open Source Community (for the sake of not playing fair with the Free Software part of the community) is unfortunately matched by opposite and hostile moves.</span></p> -</li> -<li> -<p> <span>Which brings me to the Microsoft vs. Tom-Tom case. This is one more story where software patents hamper innovation. Add to this the general timing of the case: Tom-Tom is an European company operating in the automotive industry. You can understand now why the European Union has to stand firmly by its automotive sector&#8230;</span></p> -</li> -</ul> -<p><br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=117&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_117" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-03-03T13:35:56+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.681&r2=1.682 Delta lines: +14 -29 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-03-19 12:01:31+0000 1.681 +++ rss20.xml 2009-03-19 18:01:27+0000 1.682 @@ -8,6 +8,20 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Benjamin Horst: Franceâs Gendarmerie Saves Millions with Open Source</title> + <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1064</guid> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1064</link> + <description><p>Several years ago, the French Gendarmerie police force began its migration to open source for the 90,000 desktop computers used by its 105,000 police officers. In a recent followup (<a href="http://www.osor.eu/news/fr-gendarmerie-saves-millions-with-open-desktop-and-web-applications"><em>Gendarmerie Saves Millions With Open Desktop and Web Applications</em></a>), <a href="http://www.osor.eu/">OSOR.eu</a> finds the Gendarmerie continues to succeed with its open source strategy:</p> +<blockquote><p><span id="parent-fieldname-description">The French Gendarmerie&#8217;s gradual migration to a complete open source desktop and web applications has saved millions of euro, says Lieutenant-Colonel Xavier Guimard. &#8220;This year the IT budget will be reduced by 70 percent. This will not affect our IT systems.&#8221; </span></p></blockquote> +<p><span>The migration still continues now, as new systems are bought to replace older machines. In this way, change is managed as a gradual process, while the general rule against buying new software licenses (using legacy licenses until they are replaced with open source) means that money is being saved immediately.</span></p> +<blockquote><p>&#8220;If one of us wants a new PC, it comes with Ubuntu. This encourages our users to migrate.&#8221; Guimard estimates Gendarmerie since 2004 has saved 50 million euro on licences for standard office applications, hardware and maintenance.</p> +<p>The decision in 2004 to move to open source, was raised by one of the Gendarmerie&#8217;s accountants. &#8220;Microsoft was forcing us to buy new software licences. This annoyed our accountant, who tried OpenOffice.&#8221; According to Guimard the proprietary software maker then started lobbying the Gendarmerie, which is how the general manager found out about the experiments. &#8220;When he saw OpenOffice worked just as well and was available for free, it was he that decided it should be installed on all 90,000 desktops.&#8221;</p></blockquote> +<p>After sampling open source with OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird, the Gendarmerie took another step and migrated to Linux as well.</p> +<blockquote><p>In 2007 the Gendarmerie decided to replace even the desktop operating system. Guimard: &#8220;Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users. Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority.&#8221;</p></blockquote> +<blockquote></blockquote></description> + <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:25:43 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.1 Developer Snapshot (build OOO310_m6) available</title> <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/76bf3e8211cb9cb2</guid> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_18</link> @@ -343,35 +357,6 @@ <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:44:04 +0000</pubDate> <author>[email protected] (Leif Lodahl)</author> </item> -<item> - <title>Charles Schulz: Thirty years old and still no Tom-Tomâ¦</title> - <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/</guid> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/03/03/thirty-years-old-and-still-no-tom-tom/</link> - <description><p><a href="http://www.laquadrature.net/HADOPI" title="HADOPI - Le Net en France : black-out"><img src="http://media.laquadrature.net/Quadrature_black-out_HADOPI_728x90px.gif" border="0" alt="HADOPI - Le Net en France : black-out" /></a></p> -<p>Today I am thirty. And today, I have decided I would post a blog that would not be different from the my other posts. How&#8217;s that for genuine originality? So today&#8217;s topic will be a round-up of news on OpenDocument Format (ODF). It has been a long time I haven&#8217;t updated this area.</p> -<p>&nbsp;</p> -<ul> -<li> -<p>ODF 1.2 is well underway. The arrival of a flurry of new members inside the ODF Technical Committee who have illustrated themselves as proponents of OOXML is a bit fun to watch I must say. But I have to command the general serenity of the Committee and its chairs, Rob Weir and Michael Brauer for their quiet and effective management of the proceedings. I think the only thing that is to be hoped for is that we can finish the completion of this ODF sub-version. Also, and of some interest, I can only recommend <a href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/">the reading of the archives of the Committee&#8217;s discussions online</a> where interesting concepts on extensions and conformance are being discussed.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>Some « lighter » news but as serious: the future of ODF does not just depend on the OASIS ODF Technical Committee. It depends on you. You are encouraged to provide ideas for the future versions of ODF « ODF-Next » . The Committee has wanted this to be inclusive of everyone&#8217;s participation as explained <a href="http://opendocument.xml.org/news/oasis-welcomes-input-for-odf-next">here</a>.</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>We did know that at some point in time, Microsoft Office would support ODF. It seems the wait is <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2008/10/22/announcing-service-pack-2-sp2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system.aspx">almost over these days</a>. You will recall I was originally very supportive of the idea of Microsoft Office natively supporting ODF; then, I took some time reading the fine print and I grew a bit wary of what the Microsoft engineers were saying about the limits their implementation of ODF would be constrained to. At this point in time we do not have the Service Pack 2 of Microsoft Office 2007. What we do know however, is a couple of things that got me thinking: ODF support will only be available in the latest, patched version of Microsoft Office 2007. It will have some limitations and the feature will not be put prominently in the hands of the users, so to speak. I wonder why ODF shouldn&#8217;t be Microsoft Office&#8217;s default format or if the default configuration would be more effective with an icon on the user interface. After all, ODF is an ISO standard and people, governments, businesses demand it (at this stage it&#8217;s not even clear if OOXML was even requested by anyone who was not already part of Ecma and had vested interests in siding on with Microsoft&#8230;), so why not make that jump?</p> -</li> -<li> -<p>This also got me thinking: <em>ODF support in MS Office is a good idea.</em> <span>Don&#8217;t get me wrong on this. I wish however were extended to other products of the Microsoft stack, such as Sharepoint, Microsoft Dynamics and even Microsoft Internet Explorer. Why? I do not advocate this strategic move with ulterior motives of having Microsoft fail. Precisely not: The only way for Microsoft to survive is to embrace Open Standards, transparency and perhaps Open Source in some way. So let Microsoft do it the whole way. If the market demands ODF, let it have it and let it have a real choice, where Microsoft would actually be a compelling one for good. I am confident Microsoft folks are having some discussion on this internally. But there is at the very least two sides inside the company, and any attempt to play well with the Open Source Community (for the sake of not playing fair with the Free Software part of the community) is unfortunately matched by opposite and hostile moves.</span></p> -</li> -<li> -<p> <span>Which brings me to the Microsoft vs. Tom-Tom case. This is one more story where software patents hamper innovation. Add to this the general timing of the case: Tom-Tom is an European company operating in the automotive industry. You can understand now why the European Union has to stand firmly by its automotive sector&#8230;</span></p> -</li> -</ul> -<p><br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=117&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_117" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></description> - <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:35:56 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
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