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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.

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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.
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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.
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