Re: [Fsfe-uk] Bristol City Council goes open source

[Alex Hudson]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 18:05 +0100, Tom Chance wrote:
> It'd be interesting to know why they've opted for Star Office over Open 
> Office. Support from Sun?

Probably less "why they opted" more "why they were offered". If it's a
common procurement, it would have been an open tender process. That
means that people would have proposed a solution, and they would have
picked one. I don't know of anyone offering OpenOffice.org (on that
scale) in this country.

The differences between the two pieces of software are supposed to be
minimal these days; maybe it does come with some extra trinkets. I would
guess that's not the reason they opted for it though (although, ISTR
StarOffice has better database stuff built-in?)

Cheers,

Alex.