[Scottish] Scotland features in Microsoft ad regarding OOo

Marco Fontani mfontani at cpan.org
Fri Oct 15 12:42:06 UTC 2010


> I noticed it features a quote by a David Sterling, ICT Manager for
> "Central Scotland Police".

You will find the very same quote on the Microsoft site:

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-Office-2003/Central-Scotland-Police/Central-Scotland-Police-Cuts-Maintenance-Costs-30-Percent-By-Replacing-Linux-Desktop/49609

You may like to read redditors' comments on the matter, at
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/dqvwi/microsoft_posts_video_of_customers_criticizing/

The linked Ars Technica article pointed out the following: "we found
that these quotes are actually from case studies and press articles
from the last four years, most of which are hosted on Microsoft.com"
and they also link to each and every one of these case studies.

HTH,
-marco-



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