To be more specific: Office to StarOffice migration leads to huge savings
Open source debate brought to a close - for now
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| Bristol calculated a five-year total cost of ownership of £670,010 for
| StarOffice, compared with £1,706,684 for Microsoft Office. This was
| despite budgeting half as much in implementation and support costs
| for Microsoft because many users were already on its systems.
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| The difference may turn out to be even greater, says IT strategy team
| leader Gavin Beckett. "We discovered that things were simpler than we
| thought they'd be," he says of the switch. "We always argued that a lot
| of the risk was perceived risk, rather than real risk."
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| Deployment of StarOffice has cost £10,000 rather than a budgeted £87,000,
| as Bristol found it could re-use an existing tool. In addition, most
| staff have needed 30 to 60 minutes of re-training rather than the
| planned day's-worth.
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Case closed.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/e-public/story/0,,1786068,00.html
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