Re: [Fsfe-uk] Bristol City Council goes open source

[Neil Darlow]

Hi,

On Monday 18 Oct 2004 22:31, Ian Lynch wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 18:10, Alex Hudson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 18:05 +0100, Tom Chance wrote:
> > > It'd be interesting to know why they've opted for Star Office over Open
> > > Office. Support from Sun?
> >
> > Probably less "why they opted" more "why they were offered". If it's a
> > common procurement, it would have been an open tender process. That
> > means that people would have proposed a solution, and they would have
> > picked one. I don't know of anyone offering OpenOffice.org (on that
> > scale) in this country.

I think another reason for going the StarOffice route, as explained in Sun's 
presentation at LinuxWorld Expo 2004 (while the AFFS committee were meeting), 
is that Sun have prepared a migration strategy for organisations wishing to 
adopt StarOffice as an alternative to M$ Office.

They provide limited migration tools for free download but more sophisticated 
ones are available to their "Partners" and buyers of StarOffice Enterprise. 
This obviously will help to quell the fears of nervous migrators and is 
something that probably hasn't, yet, been fully addressed by the OpenOffice 
community.

Brownie points to me for actually listening to men in suits at LinuxWorld :-)

Regards,
Neil Darlow
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