Author: Ciemon Dunville Date: To: rogermunford, Hampshire LUG Discussion List CC: Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Major vote of confidence for Linux
Something similar is happening in the British Army too.
Bowman is the new digitised battlefield radio that has recently been
bought into service. I learned to my surprise, about a month ago, that
someone on the project has put OpenOffice on the system as the office
package. I've yet to find out who or why but this is massive.
Why? Because the forces are seriously skint, with cuts happening
everywhere, and the IT guys are listening. Not only do we need to get
used to "operational software" when we're not on operations, but we
need to be seen to be saving money.
As you'd expect I'm good buddies with my IT team who are now refusing
to pay for Microsoft licenses when OOo is much better and is ISO
standard. Requests for new workstations will have OOo installed, not
MSO.
