heise.de — This link is in German, but basically says that the Gronigen, the capital city of the Province by the same name, will save a net of 140,000 Euros by the move in the first year. I'm sure someone can translate the full article and post it in the comments section.
Jul 22, 2006 View in Crawl 4
hchaudh1Jul 23, 2006
You mean if they switch from MS Office 2003 to 2007.
thankthecheeseJul 23, 2006
indeed. OO is slowly becoming more stable and user friendly. When the functionality and usability reach or exceed MS Office, that's when the major shift will happen.
rickysan65Jul 23, 2006
"Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!" At least we can do that legally around here, ha!
redhouseJul 23, 2006
oh look at us, we're going places.we're OO fans and we just got a city of 175k to use our stuff.that's probably all of 8 seats.way to go, you're the next firefox, your torch burns brightly
xbasilxJul 23, 2006
All you fuuccking whiners saying how MS office is so much better than OO are full of shhiitt. Yeah, there's a feature gap, but that gap is very small, and mostly full of useless options no one uses or cares about anyway. MS office fukkking blows for all the useless bloat it has... OO has everything that's _really_ needed. Nobody needs clippy to help them write a letter.
oeliJul 23, 2006
Hmm, somehow the site removed my translation (because I put it in quotes perhaps?). Anyhow, another attempt:With its 181.000 inhabitants, the city is so far the largest in The Netherlands that starts using OpenOffice. Last week word got out that Haarlem, that announced plans to migrate to OpenOffice 2 years ago, has changed its mind.More info on the Haarlem decision can be found here:<a class="user" href="http://www.livre.nl/nieuws/overheid/gemeente-groningen-wil-switchen-naar-openoffice.org-17072006.html">http://www.livre.nl/nieuws/overheid/gemeente-groningen-wil-switchen-naar-openoffice.org-17072006.html</a>What this roughly translates to is that one of the major issues was lack of support for connecting with their Visual Basic apps. Developing and maintaining custom software to be able to connect OpenOffice with third party apps turned out to be just as expensive as buying Microsoft licenses. (It's a pity they seem not to have involved the community here. This 'custom software' they had to create might have been a joined effort, had they opened up their processes some more.
Closed AccountJul 24, 2006
OMG MICROSOFT LOSES AT THE INETERNETS!!!Who the f**k cares if five fat people stop using Windows.
buldirJul 25, 2006
"People putting their information in a format which may not be accessible in a 100 years is a dangerous gamble to make."As a geospatial data manager, I couldn't agree more, but let me play devil's advocate here -- How is anyone supposed to know what format will be accessible in 25 years...let alone 100?