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By: Shaun
 a reply to Forcing Governments to use Open Sourceby Shaun on Aug 29, 2008 - 09:49 AM read 87 times Source: http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/?p=1901#comment-170129 |
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While I can certainly see the large benefits of switching to open source platforms, there are problems involved with switching. Microsoft gives governments extensive enterprise licensing deals when they use Windows along with Office along with Outlook along with …
There is considerable re-training time to consider when moving Administrative Assistants and even less technically-inclined employees to a new software system. Also, products delivered by Microsoft systems are more readily accepted by the general public. This is not to say that the long term cost benefits of open source aren’t viable, I’m just playing Devil’s Advocate.
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