Kinda funny, Kinda interesting.
Found it originally thru Lwn.
http://lwn.net/Articles/156452/
It's a e-mail to groklaw by one of the people running a european open source study.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2005102011342691
The orginization is called Cospa and their job description is:
"The Consortium aims at analysing the effects of the introduction of Open Data Standards (ODS) and Open Source (OS) software for personal productivity and document management in European PAs."
Basicly to study the feasability of using OSS software.
They figured the best way to convert from MS-land to Linux-land was to convert from MS Office to OpenOffice.org first, develop database tools to aid in the transition from commercial database products to postgresql and others, then finally make the transition to Linux desktop OS.. starting with machines to old for XP.
Kinda interesting. One funny thing they figured out is that the best way to get people to start using O
rg is to set that application for the default for all word and office-related documents. Even with MS Office installed on the computer the average person just started using Org just becuase it was more convienent.(reminds me of the old Netscape vs IE wars and they each agressively setting the OS defaults to their respective browsers)
Another one was that half of everybody said that it was as good as MS Office, the the other half said it was good enough to get the job done even though it was inferior.
Also their desktop system of choice for older computers (the example was given was 166mhz and 96megs of ram) was XFCE desktop.
Kinda interesting.
edit:
One thing that I missed was how municiple-specific versions of Debian made the transitions easier then otherwise in some cases.
Found it originally thru Lwn.
http://lwn.net/Articles/156452/
It's a e-mail to groklaw by one of the people running a european open source study.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2005102011342691
The orginization is called Cospa and their job description is:
"The Consortium aims at analysing the effects of the introduction of Open Data Standards (ODS) and Open Source (OS) software for personal productivity and document management in European PAs."
Basicly to study the feasability of using OSS software.
They figured the best way to convert from MS-land to Linux-land was to convert from MS Office to OpenOffice.org first, develop database tools to aid in the transition from commercial database products to postgresql and others, then finally make the transition to Linux desktop OS.. starting with machines to old for XP.
Kinda interesting. One funny thing they figured out is that the best way to get people to start using O
rg is to set that application for the default for all word and office-related documents. Even with MS Office installed on the computer the average person just started using Org just becuase it was more convienent.(reminds me of the old Netscape vs IE wars and they each agressively setting the OS defaults to their respective browsers)Another one was that half of everybody said that it was as good as MS Office, the the other half said it was good enough to get the job done even though it was inferior.
Also their desktop system of choice for older computers (the example was given was 166mhz and 96megs of ram) was XFCE desktop.
Kinda interesting.
edit:
One thing that I missed was how municiple-specific versions of Debian made the transitions easier then otherwise in some cases.
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