it's unfortunate that these organisations hire consultants that are not<br>solution based, but vendor biased. They certainty put the 'con' into<br>consultant.<br><br>darn, I'm top posting again.. I've really got to stop that.<br><br>anyway, http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/02/07/microsoft_share_price_plunges_following_yahoo_takeover_bid.html<br><br>looks like my prediction were accurate...<br><br>microwho?<br><br>http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=msft<br><br>now at 28.30...<br><br>all you ms developers out there, start reading those 'how to program' without<br>everything being done for you in visual basic' books.......<br><br><br><br><b><i>John Seago <seago.john@googlemail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Thursday 07 February 2008 14:46:09 Gary Short wrote:<br>> In an ideal world sure, but we don't live in an ideal world. They have to<br>> take
cogniscence of the fact that they have to be able to work from<br>> templates, some created out with the constabulary; they have to add to and<br>> work with repositories shared with other government offices and lastly they<br>> need to be able to, easily, hire staff who will be familiar with the<br>> technology. All of these things, I'm afraid, led them to decide that Office<br>> was their best bet.<br><br>I cannot believe that the re-training necessary for clerical staff to <br>operate 'Open Office', given that they should already be trained to operate <br>Microsoft office® can be anything other than trivial. As the whole essence <br>of 'Open office' is its interoperability with other formats the problems <br>dealing with materail; from outwith any given organisation should also be <br>trivial. After all I was able to open and complete the Microsoft® format <br>document I was given, its just that I forgot to send it back in the same <br>format; had the DCS
had 'Open Office' then they would have been able to open <br>the document I sent them!<br><br>-- <br>John Seago<br>GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 http://counter.li.org/<br>() ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail - against microsoft attachments<br>/\<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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