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What they have managed to do is to make life more difficult for their employees. Most of those employees have a computer at home that runs Windows and uses Wor
by davidf18 12y ago
What they have managed to do is to make life more difficult for their employees. Most of those employees have a computer at home that runs Windows and uses Word, Excel, Powerpoint, ....
Now they have to learn a second operating system and set of applications software.
Assuming a five year life for a computer (in government that is) or about 2000 days of use, then the cost of licensing on a daily basis is going to be pennies a day for all of this hardship. Crazy!
- pbhjpbhj 12y ago>Now they have to learn a second operating system and set of applications software. // Well updating to ribbon based UI is as hard, probably more so, than switching to LibreOffice. Also, they can install Limux at home for free and so use a consistent system across work and home. That way they can save money on future upgrades at home too.
- Zigurd 12y ago> Most of those employees have a computer at home that runs Windows and uses Word, Excel, Powerpoint..." 2004 called. Today, most people use a smartphone most frequently.
- danford 12y agoUsing Linux isn't that hard. I worked for a call center that trained people on command line DOS in 3 days. Not to mention there are a lot of companies dishing out business phones running OS's that are completely different from windows, but we never hear about how hard it is for the employees to use the company phone.