<div dir="ltr">Wow. <div><br></div><div>Need more time to process it. </div><div><br></div><div>But still my first response is .....wow.<div><br></div><div>As a quick note the only problem I would foresee out of all of the bullet points against moving to OSS is the software one, all the others can be argued against. That one is tougher, and can be a big stumbling block.</div></div><div><br></div><div>One example for a bullet point that can be argued is staff training, ok we did it on a smaller scale, but we did zero staff training when it came to moving staff to Linux/OSS like libreoffice, firefox. Most of the time if we did not tell them it was Linux they didn't even realise.</div><div><br></div><div>To be honest they didn't need to do a massive roll-out they could of just done one department to see the impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for taking the time to get this FOI, it is a big insight.</div><div><br></div><div>Jo</div><div><br></div><div>ps. Meant to be doing an assignment......must.....resist.....the urge.....to research more into this........</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 October 2014 19:38, Jonathan Kaye <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdkaye@riseup.net" target="_blank">jdkaye@riseup.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font face="DejaVu Sans">Hi all,<br>
FYI here is the response I received from Kent County Council
regarding the decision to continue using Microsoft products. Any
comments?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Jonathan<br>
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