Re: [edlug] Scottish Executive: Staroffice

[Iain C <iainc@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

I think the Scottish Office ar in danger of being way under-budget if 
they use
Staroffice and other OSS.  Are they using the Win32 version or Linux, 
does anyone know?

PS: Maybe they can tell my company to switch to 
Lunix/Soffice/Eudora/Mozilla etc.  Our IT
department have thier heads in a dark place when it come to MS stuff 
anyway.  I want to
get paid £35/hr to tell people to reboot all day.... ;-)  Nice work if 
you can get it.

IT departments LOVE viruses.  It justifies thier existence.  Then again, 
if a virus was really a
threat in the first place ...

PS: I got Sasser'ed and also Gaobot'ed at the same time. Cool huh!  I 
got 166 files in quarantine,
just in the last 4 weeks since I installed McAfee.  I wish my 330 
speedtouch would work
under Mandrake 10 ... ;-(





John McAulay wrote:

> Hi There
>
> Moving away from Abscess (oh I really meant Access) is a big leap for 
> a  big organization like the Scottish Executive, but then again 
> they'll be  more cautious about spending money unnecessarily after 
> Hollyrood, so  perhaps Open Office and Linux will gradually gain 
> momentum with the  Scottish Executive.
>
> John
>
>
> On 7 May 2004, at 18:06, Ross McLachlan wrote:
>
> > Some good news I guess. I doubt we will see many areas of the Scottish
> > Executive themselves using Staroffice however... I am working in one of
> > their IT teams in the summer and they only last year went to Windows XP
> > + Office XP.. :(. On a more positive note I noted a larger Oracle and
> > Sun presence instead of horrible MS Access,etc databases being used as
> > they were previously..
> >
> >
> > Ross.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 09:26, Bob Kerr wrote:
> >
> > > Awareness in the Scottish Executive is really picking up
> > >
> > > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/ 
> > > 0,39020384,39153936,00.htm
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
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