The UK Joint Information Systems Committee could be interested in
deploying OpenOffice.org nationally:
"Our longer term commitments to the open agenda will
also be maintained, including open source, Open Access,
open educational resources, and supporting open research
and open innovation."
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39963324,00.htm
While those are the goals that are most easily met, the buzzwords
"shared services", "cloud computing", "software-as-a-service", and
"management information requirements" risk the whole project as a
boondoggle. If those can be dealt with, or at least neutralized
politcally, then the more easily achieved secondary goals can be met by
OOo.
One buzzword which OOo could address directly might be 'Green ICT'
through extending the functional life of hardware and documents. Older
hardware can use more resource-efficient operating systems and window
managers/desktop environments and still run OOo. The same cannot be
said of OOo's main competitor. Getting even an extra 12 months out of
hardware means double digit savings by several metrics.
/Lars
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