[Discussioni] Governo inglese pensa di abbandonare Office

Alberto Cammozzo ac+lists a zeromx.net
Mer 29 Gen 2014 21:53:42 CET


Chissą se fanno sul serio o se cercano sconti...

<http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/29/uk-government-plans-switch-to-open-source-from-microsoft-office-suite>

UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude plans to standardise on open
formats to cut costs on Office suite and break 'oligopoly' of IT suppliers

Ministers are looking at saving tens of millions of pounds a year by
abandoning expensive software produced by firms such as Microsoft.

Some £200m has been spent by the public sector on the computer giant's
Office suite alone since 2010.

But the Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude believes a significant
proportion of that outlay could be cut by switching to software which
can produce open-source files in the "open document format" (ODF), such
as OpenOffice and Google Docs.

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