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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."
Depends on who you buy the free software from.
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?
Prevent linux based DDOS's!
http://linux.denialofservice.org/
The only thing I have to say is, HA!! All of these stupid companies saying they are replacing MS to save money end up using a bunch of shitty products and are buggy and maintained by a bunch of two-bit open source wanna-be hackers, then after they realize this they go back to buying production quality software and stop complaining!
Your post fits the profile of a 'paid-astroturfer-post' "to the tee". (1) spelling errors for believability, (2) a claim to be a Linux admin for credibility amongst the /. audience, (3) claims of severe interoperability problems with OSS and of the indirect cost of OSS being high, (4) specifically attempt to induce fear of OSS - could cost your job if you use OO, wooh!!
Basically you pretend to advocate other alternatives but you really only advocate Windows etc. ... samples. from your other posts:
"I don't see many great differences. My end users working in marketing or whatever prefer Windows/Office. They do think differently than us geeks, and aren't willing to spend hours dealing with archaic command lines. Windows performs admirably there."
"Mr Gates is the biggest ... philanthropist in the world"
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.
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.
just for comparison?