[dundee] Open Office - Baby Steps

[Lee Hughes]

I'd move all your server to e2, and keep that data on a san at the uni...

You can then give me £xxx,xxx pounds a year that you'll save to  me...

Job done, hey I like this work.

No seriously, if you we're get rid of all your servers, and become totally virtual, but still
have control of your destiny, how much

energy

money

time and effort

would you save,

unfortunately , they'd sack half the uni it team, because that's what happens when
you improve things, they go, hey we don't need these guys now.. I've been there,
done that... I've seen it.

Keep everything as it, don't do yourself out of job... we'd loose our only open source
rebel on 'the inside' ;-).





--- On Sat, 18/10/08, Mark <burtiebob at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Mark <burtiebob at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [dundee] Open Office - Baby Steps
To: dundee at lists.lug.org.uk
Date: Saturday, 18 October, 2008, 3:32 PM

Like the title change, funny as I was thinking about making BIG steps.....

1 -  How much does it cost the University IT department per student taking into account Hardware, Software (licenses and support) and Internal staffing costs.
2 -  How much would it cost to provide each student with a Linux based laptop with some support.

If (1 > 2 response = Yippee)
Else response = pooPants

Just another tangent on the subject of documents.
All this talk about formatting being messed up reminds me of some Uni buddies who would create an outstanding looking GUI in Java and then have zero functionality as they hadn't written any working code.
If you have a working document should you really be worried about how pretty it looks until it's complete, surely the content is
 more important than presentation when creating......

Mark


----- Original Message ----
From: "STEVENS, GRAEME" <986100930 at abertay.ac.uk>
To: seago.john at googlemail.com; Tayside Linux User Group <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, 18 October, 2008 13:06:18
Subject: [dundee] Open Office - Baby Steps

If the Uni wont even consider adding open office in the forseeable, then, what about Zoho?

Its online - No Installation
You can export to OO or Office, so when both are available, its still relevant.

Keeping your work on a an Internet based office has its benefits i.e access.

That way, you introduce the concept of freedom but without the Uni technicians having to do anything.

Just a thought.

Graeme Stevens
MSc Ethical
 Hacking and Computer Security
University of Abertay Dundee



-----Original Message-----
From: dundee-bounces at lists.lug.org.uk on behalf of John¹
Sent: Thu 16/10/2008 21:59
To: dundee at lists.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [dundee] The Distro Swap Shop
 
On Thursday 16 October 2008 19:24:10 "Christie, Brian" 
<B.Christie at abertay.ac.uk>,  wrote:
> I'll see if I can find out what happened to that and what their position
> is...

vide, http://www.theopendisc.com/

-- 
John Seago
GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 http://counter.li.org/

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