Bonjour,
Je vous forward ce mail qui nous vient du projet suèdois ou la police
envisage de migrer sous OOo. Notre gendarmerie y est citée en exemple :)
A bientôt
Sophie
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Subject: [Marketing] Swedish police investigate use of OpenOffice
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:09:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Lars D. Noodén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: OOo marketing list <[email protected]>
Here is a very unofficial translation of the CS article.
One comment is that the quote, "Therefore a swap should not be difficult"
should be qualified. A swap, or even a phased rollout, might not be
difficult right now -- until MS or its reseller ensure that the police's
infrastructure is thoroughly marinated in MS Office macros. This would be
significantly less work and less legal risk than MS took to spread parts
of MSIE throughout windows in response to the mid 1990's antritrust
trials.
For electronic records, the are strict rules in Sweden about the
readability and potential for long term preservation. OpenDocument meets
those and using OOo would reduce the amount of work that has to be done to
convert public records before turning them over to the National Archives.
Since OOo runs on legacy systemsand Koffice does not, OOo can be phased in
more easily. A very big selling point, if framed correctly, would be
OpenDocument support.
State agencies, that haven't yet been privatized, are under very strong
laws (actually the constitution) to keep public materials available,
until the British/French-style EU constitution takes precidence:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/nordic/div/offentlighet.html
By posting to the marketing list, I have guaranteed that MS will increase
its activities against the police. ;)
-Lars
http://computersweden.idg.se/ArticlePages/200602/13/20060213165505_CS270/20060213165505_CS270.dbp.asp
The Swedish police examine open programs
The Swedish police are going much further in their effort to find
inexpensive
systems. Open source stands high on the list. At the same time the French
police are tossing out both Microsoft's Office suite and exchanging MS
Internet
Explorer for Firefox.
The Directorate of the Royal Police has started an investigation of open
alternatives to Oracle and Bea's Weblogic. The database and applications
layers in the police's IT archtecture are in the focus. During the
autumn the
focus will be raised to the presentation layer. There Microsoft's
solutions,
including the Office package and MS Internet explorer, have a poor standing.
- Open source products are today sufficiently good to be able to compare
with
the leading providers, says Per-Ola Sjöswärd, IT strategist for the Royal
Police.
- Today we have Office 97. By the autumn we must take a position on an
upgrade
to the next version. That's a matter of millions. I would bet on Open
Office,
but of course it shall be thoroughly evaluated before we make a
decision, he
says.
France, The land of progress
In France the police force has already begun to swap out Microsoft's
Office for
OpenOffice, an open source project. 70 000 users are involved. The police
estimate the savings to be nearly 18.5 million SEK - per year. By the
end of
the year MS Internet Explorer shall be gone completely. The replacement is
Firefox.
The French Police's head of IT, Christian Brachet, says to AFP that
Firefox is
to be recommended because it is based on the W3C's international
standards and
functions just as well on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. Fire fox is widely
accepted to be much more secure and reliable.
- One should of course choose the web browser that follows W3C
standards. MS
Explorer has extensions in the form of Active-X components which often mean
severe security risks. Ourselves, we don't quite have the same risk
scenario
because we are have a completely internal network, disconnected from the
Internet, says Per-Ola Sjöswärd.
The police investigated the OpenOffice variant, StarOffice, two years
ago. At
that point only one out of 160 users had any problem leaving Microsoft's
solution due to macros. Of the Office package, the police man on the
street
uses only Word and even then no functions beyond spelling correction and
formatting. Therefore a swap should not be difficult.
A better format
An additional advantage of Open Office is that is saves in an open document
format which, among others, the National Archives of Sweden is
interested in
for long term electronic archives.
CS described last December the police department's new database. MySQL
will be
investigated during the spring as an alternative to Oracle and Jboss as an
alternative to Weblogic for application servers.
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog ...
... until you start barking.
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