[dundee] Intercommunication between Document formats

[Lee Hughes]

it's unfortunate that these organisations hire consultants that are not
solution based, but vendor biased. They certainty put the 'con' into
consultant.

darn, I'm top posting again.. I've really got to stop that.

anyway, http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/02/07/microsoft_share_price_plunges_following_yahoo_takeover_bid.html

looks like my prediction were accurate...

microwho?

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=msft

now at 28.30...

all you ms developers out there, start reading those 'how to program' without
everything being done for you in visual basic' books.......



John Seago <seago.john at googlemail.com> wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2008 14:46:09 Gary Short wrote:
> In an ideal world sure, but we don't live in an ideal world. They have to
> take cogniscence of the fact that they have to be able to work from
> templates, some created out with the constabulary; they have to add to and
> work with repositories shared with other government offices and lastly they
> need to be able to, easily, hire staff who will be familiar with the
> technology. All of these things, I'm afraid, led them to decide that Office
> was their best bet.

I cannot believe that the re-training necessary for clerical staff to 
operate 'Open Office', given that they should already be trained to operate 
Microsoft office® can be anything other than trivial. As the whole essence 
of 'Open office' is its interoperability with other formats the problems 
dealing with materail; from outwith any given organisation should also be 
trivial. After all I was able to open and complete the Microsoft® format 
document I was given, its just that I forgot to send it back in the same 
format; had the DCS had 'Open Office' then they would have been able to open 
the document I sent them!

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John Seago
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