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Re:Valencia region government completes switch to LibreOffice by vidarh on Thursday August 22, 2013 @09:22AM (#6256926)
You are pulling numbers out of your ass and claim we can't do math?

Give us some citations to document performance loss, and further citations do document that the performance loss is sufficient enough to reduce the amount of work the staff actually carries out (if they're less productive per unit time spent working, but still completes the same amount of work, then the cost is not borne by the government - it is fairly normal for workload to be quite elastic), and we can talk about your numbers.

You also don't account for another factor: Even if there is a loss, it is not given that it is a net negative: License payments to Microsoft leave Valencia, and Spain. Payments to any additional training and support staff or additional assistance for LibreOffice is likely to stay in the local economy, and part of it will find its way straight back in in the form of taxes.

It is perfectly possible that they've messed up the numbers, but you've not presented anything resembling a case for that.

You might also note from the article that this is not Valencias first large scale migration - they claim to have saved 30 million so far from switching the regions schools to Linux, so chances are they actually have better numbers than the ones you've made up.

Re:Valencia region government completes switch to LibreOffice by valdiorn on Thursday August 22, 2013 @10:15AM (#6257257)
I made these stats up in about 30 seconds. I'm guessing they'r e not that far from the norm. Even if the average use was only 1 hour, or 30 minutes, and the average pay for half of what I assumed, they should still be losing money.

I just wanted to point out, people forget these things when they do a cost/benefit estimate.

Re:Valencia region government completes switch to LibreOffice by RobAley on Thursday August 22, 2013 @10:32AM (#6257367)
But you've made an assumption that they will be more productive in MS Office, with nothing to back that up. I've see users (particularly non-technical, "basic" users) be more productive in LibreOffice. So they may have messed the numbers up and be saving even more than they thought.
Re:Valencia region government completes switch to LibreOffice by gnaritas on Thursday August 22, 2013 @11:23AM (#6257679)
You're full of assumptions and guesses, but little facts, and you're assuming Office is more productive when it could easily be the opposite.