=?iso-8859-15?Q?Lars_D=2E_Nood=E9n?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> The article does mention savings, but only in the context of licensing
> fees. There does seem to be some implied confusion on the part of the
> author at the end regarding open formats and open source. And without
> that distinction a quote taken out of context at the end suggests,
> incorrectly, only ideological reasons behind the decision.
>
Well, it has obviously been subbed down.
The bit that I found interesting was one of the comments, where someone
writes in to say that they work for another Swedish local authority
("kommun") which uses Linux for some of its work, and replacing MS office
realy isn't as easy as it looks. The point is all the dicitanories, excel-
addins and general software ecology that have grown around Office must also
be replaced, and this is usually impossible, since they have been supplied
by third party consultants, with whom government bodies have long term
contracts.
So, he says. the stuff can't be rewritten for both technical and
political/economic reasons. The staff end up supporting both windows and
linux, which rather destroys the costs savings.
So, he says, Star/OpenOffice is OK for low-level clerical work. But it
can't replace MS Office for the more important stuff.
[theis is a very free translaiton and summary. But it's not a distortion]
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