[ubuntu-uk] Open formats in UK gov?

[Andres]

On 29 de enero de 2014 23:24:16 GMT, Nigel Verity <nigelverity at hotmail.com> wrote:
>I think that standardising on open formats is a significant step but it
>is a long, long way from seeing the likes of LibreOffice running on the
>typical civil servant's desktop. Without exception, the big UK
>government FM contracts for IT provision and support are all let to
>companies with a huge vested interest in maintaining their relationship
>with Microsoft. If all that's being opened up is the use of ODF,
>Microsoft will point out that they support ODF, though their
>implementation is far from perfect, but that's no different from
>LibreOffice's implementation of the DOCX format.
>
>In schools and elsewhere people are not taught "word processing". They
>are taught explicitly how to use MS Word. Likewise with "spreadsheets"
>and Excel. Although for most people the transition to LibreOffice would
>be fairly trivial, the civil service would insist that everyone is
>given conversion training. Microsoft could reasonably point to a high
>cost of migration which, combined with the cost of Office pared back to
>cost price or less, would see the company able to maintain its
>stranglehold on government IT procurement. Civil servants can already
>buy personal copies of Office Pro for well under £20. Think of the
>price the government would get when ordering half a million copies.
>
>Nige 		 	   		  
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Didn't the city of Munich start with this some years ago? Now they seem to be almost completely on the other side.  

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