Comments on: OpenOffice.org: 10 Million Downloads in 4 weeks http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/11/10/openofficeorg-10-million-downloads-in-4-weeks/ The Magic of Open Source Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:04:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: wayne http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/11/10/openofficeorg-10-million-downloads-in-4-weeks/comment-page-1/#comment-9515 wayne Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:03:17 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=436#comment-9515 Just make an FOI request to your local council to get the details, once contracts are awarded commercial exemptions don't apply so you can find the full costs of these contracts. In Worcestershire they paid £516.5k for a 3 year contract for Office 2007 on around 2900 desktops. I think the equivilient for Star Office would be something like £170k. They argue that because they use Exchange server they have to have Office 2007 (depsite the fact they could replace that with Zimbra for £30k!). Just make an FOI request to your local council to get the details, once contracts are awarded commercial exemptions don’t apply so you can find the full costs of these contracts. In Worcestershire they paid £516.5k for a 3 year contract for Office 2007 on around 2900 desktops. I think the equivilient for Star Office would be something like £170k.

They argue that because they use Exchange server they have to have Office 2007 (depsite the fact they could replace that with Zimbra for £30k!).

]]> By: Alan Lord http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/11/10/openofficeorg-10-million-downloads-in-4-weeks/comment-page-1/#comment-9326 Alan Lord Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:26:21 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=436#comment-9326 Lol. Thanks Martyn, I thought about trying to gestimate the figure but it made my head hurt... I really do shudder to think how much we send to Uncle Sam each year for software that we don't need. Although I guess now we hear about stupid numbers to bail out the banks, a few million here or there seems less significant somehow. (I bet "Maggy" wouldn't have been so cavalier with our cash however...) Lol. Thanks Martyn,

I thought about trying to gestimate the figure but it made my head hurt… I really do shudder to think how much we send to Uncle Sam each year for software that we don’t need.

Although I guess now we hear about stupid numbers to bail out the banks, a few million here or there seems less significant somehow. (I bet “Maggy” wouldn’t have been so cavalier with our cash however…)

]]> By: Martyn http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/11/10/openofficeorg-10-million-downloads-in-4-weeks/comment-page-1/#comment-9325 Martyn Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:16:00 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=436#comment-9325 >>I wonder how much goes to M$ just on MS OfficeTM Licenses each year??? 1% off income tax I reckon (= £2 billion pa) Well... at an IT steering group I went to earlier this year the Local Authority IT manager reckoned they budgeted £250k for their latest M$ upgrade - not sure if this was just office or servers as well. And since we know most govt/LA IT projects massively overrun their budgets I'd say that's £0.5 million down the tube. And since there are 4 district councils in my county, plus the county council..... you get the picture. GAH! I'm now really cross thinking about this! >>I wonder how much goes to M$ just on MS OfficeTM Licenses each year???

1% off income tax I reckon (= £2 billion pa)

Well… at an IT steering group I went to earlier this year the Local Authority IT manager reckoned they budgeted £250k for their latest M$ upgrade – not sure if this was just office or servers as well.

And since we know most govt/LA IT projects massively overrun their budgets I’d say that’s £0.5 million down the tube. And since there are 4 district councils in my county, plus the county council….. you get the picture.

GAH! I’m now really cross thinking about this!

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