<div dir="ltr">Evans,<div><br></div><div>Was wondering when you would post the article :)</div><div><br></div><div>Apparently, for over 10 years now, the UK Gov has tried and failed make users accept FOSS.</div><div><br></div>
<div><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/29/5356982/uk-goverment-threatens-to-ditch-microsoft-office-again">http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/29/5356982/uk-goverment-threatens-to-ditch-microsoft-office-again</a><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>Loss of productivity is a vital consideration in some nations. Maybe Open Office needs to improve? </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Regards</div><div><br></div>
<div>Murigi / Stanley Muraya</div><div><br></div><div><span style="line-height:13px;color:rgb(0,19,32);font-family:Trebuchet,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:justify;background-color:rgb(253,254,255)"><span style="background-color:rgb(253,254,255)"><span style="line-height:20px"><font size="1"><b>"Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city." Prov 16:32</b></font></span><span style="font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(253,254,255)"><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Evans Ikua <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ikua.evans@gmail.com" target="_blank">ikua.evans@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/29/uk-government-plans-switch-to-open-source-from-microsoft-office-suite" target="_blank"><b>"Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude plans to standardise on open formats to cut costs on Office suite and break 'oligopoly' of IT suppliers"</b></a></p>
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</div>Maude will add: "Technical standards for document formats may not sound like the first shot in a revolution. <br><br>"But
be in no doubt: the adoption of compulsory standards in government
threatens to break open Whitehall's lock-in to proprietary formats. In
turn we will open the door for a host of other software providers." Maude
will also hail changes designed to increase the number of small and
medium-sized companies (SMEs) winning public sector contracts.<br>"In the civil service there was a sense that if you hired a big
multi-national, who everyone knew the name of, you'd never be fired. <br><br>"We weren't just missing out on innovation, we were paying top dollar for yesterday's technology. <br><br>"One great example of the potential from small businesses was when we re-tendered a hosting contract. <br>
<br>"The incumbent big supplier bid £4m; a UK-based small business offered to do it for £60,000. <br><br>"We
saved taxpayers a whopping 98.5%. I don't think we can make savings of
that scale everywhere but hard-working people expect us to try as hard
as we possibly can."<br></div><div><br><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/29/uk-government-plans-switch-to-open-source-from-microsoft-office-suite" target="_blank">Read More</a><br></div><div><br clear="all">
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<b>The writing is on the wall.</b><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><b>----------------------------------------------------<br>Kind Regards,<br>Evans Ikua,</b><br><a href="http://lanetconsulting.com" target="_blank">lanetconsulting.com</a>,<br>
<a href="http://lpi-eastafrica.org" target="_blank">lpi-eastafrica.org</a>,<br>Skype: evans.ikua<br>Twitter: @ikuae<br>Cell: +254-722-955831<br></div>
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