Scottish Police Revert to Microsoft Office

LordGuha writes "The Central Scotland Policy is removing StarOffice and replacing it with Microsoft Office citing lower maintenance and running costs and greater integration with other departments. According to the article StarOffice was implemented in 2000 when the department was low in cash but lately have estimated that the Microsoft software would cost no more and lead to greater efficiencies."

Comments

Re:2+2....

[polysylabic psudonym]

Depends on who you buy the free software from.

Anyone else surprised to see this on slashdot?

[skrowl]

Normally, to see a story with good news from Microsoft on Slashdot is like seeing a story with good news for the Bush administration on CNN or MSNBC. With all of the "Small niche thing you've never heard of chooses linux" stories they run here, was anyone else surprised to see this story picked up by slashdot?

Re:Only 5% of users were using StarOffice

[vandan]

No.

Yesterday, they were cheapskates, who were moved en-masse because of a decision that came from on-high. Pigs certainly don't forward-think. Their inability to figure out OOo after 5 years demonstates that they have enough trouble thinking in the present tense. No time for forward thinking.

Now, they are the knuckle draggers that they were yesterday, but their IT department has caved in to economic incentives, political pressure, knuckle-dragger's complaints, and quite possibly some old-fashioned under-the-table incentives.

To suggest that a police force needs nothing more than a simple text editor is supreme arrogance.

They're not putting together an encyclopaedea. They're pigs. And that bit about supreme arrogance - yeah that reminds me of some friendly protectors of the people. I challenge you to give an example of some word processing task that the cops need to do that can't be accomplished in OOo.

Anyone know what Israel runs?

[glrotate]

just for comparison?