Dutch city of Ede spends 92 percent less (!) than its peers on software licenses Risk aversion might be the easiest and safest way, it's also very expensive
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/case/dutch-city-ede-spends-92-percent-less-its-peers-software-licenses "Our strategy is to gently push our users in that direction. You can use Microsoft Office at your workplace, for example, but not from home because of the license costs involved. LibreOffice, however, is offered at both locations. So a lot of interface and conversion issues are solved if you start using LibreOffice at work too. We now see our users moving away from Microsoft Office. In the meantime, of course, we have to?script?for both application suites." "The city of Ede is already running dozens of open source solutions:?LibreOffice,Zarafa+webmail,?Firefox,?TYPO3,?zaaksysteem.nl?(in Dutch),?MySQL,?PostgreSQL,Nagios, and?Asterisk, to name but a few." -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
