[clug] AGIMO seeks comments (again) on productivity software file formats

Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxious at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 18:24:56 MST 2012


Last time on the AGIMO Blog:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/agimo-faces-down-office-standard-critics-339308747.htm

Round 2:
http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/2012/02/17/reviewing-the-common-operating-environment-policy/
http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/2012/02/17/reviewing-the-coe-policy-file-format-discussion/

"Licensing costs are a small proportion of overall ICT expenditure.
Any software change is likely to involve significant cost in
installation, training and maintenance."

Microsoft Office 2010 cost the National Archives $510.40/seat (above
market rate!) in 2011
https://www.tenders.gov.au/?event=public.CN.view&CNUUID=2BD8B3C7-A0DE-49B3-0AB1F359CB981ADB
but they are meant to be party to the volume licencing agreement
https://www.tenders.gov.au/?event=public.SON.view&SONUUID=7BAA379E-09BE-7579-673556D670FBF0C7

Here's a spreadsheet (that you can download in any format you like ;)
of licencing costs but some are ambiguous and some aren't desktop
software anyway:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Av5tAkL4GY2qdGs0czk0RlNsM2pnTVVtOXBWXzhmbXc


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