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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">The cost of ODF and OOXML</div>
  24       <div class="date">26th May 2012</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>I just come across a blog post from Glyn Moody reporting the
  26 claimed cost from Microsoft on requiring ODF to be used by the UK
  27 government.  I just sent him an email to let him know that his
  28 assumption are most likely wrong.  Sharing it here in case some of my
  29 blog readers have seem the same numbers float around in the UK.</p>
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  31 <p><blockquote> <p>Hi.  I just noted your
  32 <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>
  33 comment:</p>
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  35 <p><blockquote>"They're all in Danish, not unreasonably, but even
  36 with the help of Google Translate I can't find any figures about the
  37 savings of "moving to a flexible two standard" as claimed by the
  38 Microsoft email. But I assume it is backed up somewhere, so let's take
  39 it, and the £500 million figure for the UK, on trust."
  40 </blockquote></p>
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  42 <p>I can tell you that the Danish reports are inflated.  I believe it is
  43 the same reports that were used in the Norwegian debate around 2007,
  44 and Gisle Hannemyr (a well known IT commentator in Norway) had a look
  45 at the content.  In short, the reason it is claimed that using ODF
  46 will be so costly, is based on the assumption that this mean every
  47 existing document need to be converted from one of the MS Office
  48 formats to ODF, transferred to the receiver, and converted back from
  49 ODF to one of the MS Office formats, and that the conversion will cost
  50 10 minutes of work time for both the sender and the receiver.  In
  51 reality the sender would have a tool capable of saving to ODF, and the
  52 receiver would have a tool capable of reading it, and the time spent
  53 would at most be a few seconds for saving and loading, not 20 minutes
  54 of wasted effort.</p>
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  56 <p>Microsoft claimed all these costs were saved by allowing people to
  57 transfer the original files from MS Office instead of spending 10
  58 minutes converting to ODF. :)</p>
  59
  60 <p>See
  61 <a href="http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12_vl02.php">http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12_vl02.php</a>
  62 and
  63 <a href="http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12.php">http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12.php</a>
  64 for background information.  Norwegian only, sorry. :)</p>
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