One article was in 2005 and the other was less than a year ago. So OOo was out in 2005 and was not as good working with MSO files as LO is now.
The real issue is the "proprietary" software/files in the things like Enterprise level database and mail systems. The newer of the two articles seems not to indicate anything about the "standard" PC office package for the city. They may have found a way to use an "open standard" office package, but only reported the problems with the Enterprise open-source issues.
Still, it is interesting that the movement to open-source packages and/or ODF was being looked into as early as 2005. That would indicate that for over 7 years, companies have been working on the movement towards "open formats" and open-source packages. We can surely say that it is not a "new thing" that has come out in the past 2 or 3 years.
On 11/27/2012 08:55 AM, Florian Monfort wrote:
Grrr, still shifting to OOo and not LibreOffice... Is anybody in touch with this guy already ? On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Paolo Debortoli <paolo_debortoli@yahoo.com>wrote:http://news.cnet.com/One-citys-move-to-open-source/2100-7344_3-5924184.html http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/absent-interoperability-desktop-applications-locks-mannheim-city mainly: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/basque-country-wants-european-directive-reuse-software -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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