Re:Government Open Source Office deal set to provide major s...
by vidarh on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @07:42AM
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Let's be clear on what this release says, and what it doesn't:
1. Collabora Office's solutions will be available via G-Cloud Digital Marketplace. That's a big win for them as it makes it easy for government agencies to chose them.
2. There's no mention of displacing Microsoft Office, other than to the extent Collabora manages to convince individual government organizations to make the switch.
3. There's the vague claim that Collabra will work together with the Crown Commercial Service to raise awareness about ODF and their solution. Notably absent is any kind of comment from the Crown Commercial Service or any government agency. This may mean a quite big push (but if so, where are the bigwigs making statements?) or it could mean they get to be included in a newsletter or something, or anything in between...
If there had been some deal to do a massive conversion away from MS Office, you can bet that would been made very, very clear.
1. Collabora Office's solutions will be available via G-Cloud Digital Marketplace. That's a big win for them as it makes it easy for government agencies to chose them.
2. There's no mention of displacing Microsoft Office, other than to the extent Collabora manages to convince individual government organizations to make the switch.
3. There's the vague claim that Collabra will work together with the Crown Commercial Service to raise awareness about ODF and their solution. Notably absent is any kind of comment from the Crown Commercial Service or any government agency. This may mean a quite big push (but if so, where are the bigwigs making statements?) or it could mean they get to be included in a newsletter or something, or anything in between...
If there had been some deal to do a massive conversion away from MS Office, you can bet that would been made very, very clear.