On 8/23/05, Christian Einfeldtextra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMHO, someone who is a reporter and on the ground should spent some > time trying to find out what was behind this decision. Like Ian, I > suspect mere laziness and misunderstanding and fear. I also don't buy > the interoperability argument UNLESS the cops are planning to buy more > MS integration later on, such as their new server products, or if > there was some kind of third party application that they needed. > > This is a classic example of Bhaskar Chakravorti's "dem-Moore" law in > action. We have not yet hit the digital tipping point. Someone in > the Scottish police hierarchy got cold feet, IMHO. > > On 8/23/05, Charles-H.Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Lars, > > Well I think you just should contact the local Sun reps in Central > > Scotland and ask them. > > As for me, I can always talk to the Scottish Native-Lang community, > > (http://gd.openoffice.org), but I doubt they would know more than we do, > > and besides they're not completerly setup yet. > > > > Best, > > Charles. > > > > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 14:49 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote: > > > Lars D. Noodén wrote: > > > > > > > How can we get some input about this from StarOffice folks? > > >From what I heard on some recent podcast from a source that claims to be very close to the issue, it seems that the real reason is that the IT guy (FLOSS advocate), quit that job and the new guy (Microsoft Dorde) find himself into not knowing of OpenOffice.org and switch to MSO.
This sounds by far more common and possible to happen on a government organization. -- Alexandro Colorado
