+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_cost_of_ODF_and_OOXML.html">The cost of ODF and OOXML</a></div>
+ <div class="date">26th May 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>I just come across a blog post from Glyn Moody reporting the
+claimed cost from Microsoft on requiring ODF to be used by the UK
+government. I just sent him an email to let him know that his
+assumption are most likely wrong. Sharing it here in case some of my
+blog readers have seem the same numbers float around in the UK.</p>
+
+<p><blockquote> <p>Hi. I just noted your
+<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/does-microsoft-office-lock-in-cost-the-uk-government-500-million/index.htm">http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/does-microsoft-office-lock-in-cost-the-uk-government-500-million/index.htm</a>
+comment:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>"They're all in Danish, not unreasonably, but even
+with the help of Google Translate I can't find any figures about the
+savings of "moving to a flexible two standard" as claimed by the
+Microsoft email. But I assume it is backed up somewhere, so let's take
+it, and the £500 million figure for the UK, on trust."
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>I can tell you that the Danish reports are inflated. I believe it is
+the same reports that were used in the Norwegian debate around 2007,
+and Gisle Hannemyr (a well known IT commentator in Norway) had a look
+at the content. In short, the reason it is claimed that using ODF
+will be so costly, is based on the assumption that this mean every
+existing document need to be converted from one of the MS Office
+formats to ODF, transferred to the receiver, and converted back from
+ODF to one of the MS Office formats, and that the conversion will cost
+10 minutes of work time for both the sender and the receiver. In
+reality the sender would have a tool capable of saving to ODF, and the
+receiver would have a tool capable of reading it, and the time spent
+would at most be a few seconds for saving and loading, not 20 minutes
+of wasted effort.</p>
+
+<p>Microsoft claimed all these costs were saved by allowing people to
+transfer the original files from MS Office instead of spending 10
+minutes converting to ODF. :)</p>
+
+<p>See
+<a href="http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12_vl02.php">http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12_vl02.php</a>
+and
+<a href="http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12.php">http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12.php</a>
+for background information. Norwegian only, sorry. :)</p>
+</blockquote></p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>.
+
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+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
<div class="entry">
<div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenOffice_org_fungerer_da_fint_for_blinde_.html">OpenOffice.org fungerer da fint for blinde?</a></div>
<div class="date">21st May 2012</div>
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Holder_de_ord_og_NUUG_lanserer_testtjeneste_med_stortingsinformasjon.html">Holder de ord og NUUG lanserer testtjeneste med stortingsinformasjon</a></div>
- <div class="date">22nd April 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_har_mine_representanter_stemt_i_Storinget_.html">januar
-i fjor</a> startet vi i NUUG arbeid med å gjøre informasjon om hvem
-som har stemt hva på <a href="http://www.stortinget.no/">Stortinget</a>
-enklere tilgjengelig. I løpet av få måneder fant vi sammen med
-organisasjonen <a href="http://www.holderdeord.no/">Holder de ord</a>
-som arbeidet mot et lignende mål.</p>
-
-<p>Siden den gang har vi fått tak i maskinelt lesbart informasjon om
-hvem som stemte hva mellom 1990 og våren 2010, og tilgang til
-stortingets nye datatjeneste som har informasjon fra høsten 2011 til i
-dag. Det gjenstår litt arbeid med det første datasettet, men
-datasettet fra høsten 2011 er klart til bruk. Begge datasettene er
-tilgjengelig <a href="https://gitorious.org/nuug/folketingparser">via
-git</a>.</p>
-
-<p>På
-<a href="http://www.goopen.no/holder-de-ord-datadrevet-oppfolging-av-politiske-lofter/">Go Open</a> i morgen lanserer
-NUUG sammen med Holder de ord <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/">en
-test-tjeneste</a> som viser hva som er og blir behandlet på Stortinget og
-hvem som har stemt hva siden oktober i fjor. Du får herved mulighet
-til å ta en sniktitt.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget</a>.
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