Canadian Government Computers to be upgraded Go Ubuntu

[ben_steenhorst@railway101.com]

For 36 years I worked for a railway of some 20,000 employees.  Being an
open-source enlightened retiree, I recently sent a note to the current
President suggesting that the Corporation could save millions of dollars
by switching to open source.I even provided comparison costs etc. All I
got `thanx' knowing full well that his IT people are in bed  with the
pay-as you-go computer systems suppliers.  And even friends and
neighbours give you that `what-part-of-mars-are-you-from look when you
talk about Ubuntu etc, you know they just don't get it...

Convincing the Gov to switch over, place your bets....   

On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 08:39 -0600, Donovan Hoggan wrote:

> I ran into the same problem when I asked a large non-profit I worked
> with if I could have access to OOo on the server.  We had just
> switched from WordPerfect to Microsoft Office.and my buddy on the help
> desk was telling me about the process.  They were some of the
> brightest, most capable people I've ever had the privilege of working
> with and yet the problems they had switching were CRAZY.
> 
> 
> 
> Donovan
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:35 AM, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>         The problem with upgrading to ubuntu(yes it's an upgrade from
>         windews) is that most government workers are so dumb when they
>         upgraded from windows 2000 to XP people were calling the help
>         desk because they couldn't find the calculator or other
>         programs....Imagine if they installed linux and they wanted to
>         access something//didn't know how...it would be a help desk
>         nightmare 
>         
>         
>         
>         On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Chris <candive1 at gmail.com>
>         wrote:
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>                 
>                 I see a Door opening for Ubuntu.
>                 Someone in charge run with this link.
>                 
>                 http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/home/contentposting?feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&date=true&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20100420%2fauditor_general_100420
>                 
>                 Chris.
>                 
>                 
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