[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/6/2024 9:10 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 20:31:08 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 1/6/2024 12:22 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 00:10:26 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> Some like to blame MS for what happened. But the project execution
>>>> does not seem attractive to follow.
>>>
>>> It saved money over all. That was one of the main points of the
>>> exercise.
>>
>> The bottom line was that the chosen Linux & OOo/LO strategy had 11
>> million Euro lower cost than the Windows & MSO strategy.
> 
> That is what “saving money” means, does it not.
> 
>> But the assumption was that staff and end user training cost was the
>> same for doing the switch as for just upgrading the MS solution.
> 
> Given the major, disruptive changes that tend to happen between versions
> of Microsoft’s software, that kind of thing sounds entirely reasonable.
> Particularly since you have more control over UI changes on the Linux
> side. They created their own “LiMux” distro, as I recall, as part of the
> implementation.

Unless hard evidence to the contrary the assumption would be:

effort changing software > effort changing major version same software > 
effort changing minor version same software

>> And the software creation including the approx. 65000 lines of code
>> (mostly Java) for WollMux is set to zero.
> 
> Again, presumably just equivalent to similar software development that
> would have had to be done on Windows anyway.

No. To catch up with what MS Office already had.

Arne

PS: I also noted that there was not set any cost for
     file conversion between DOC and ODF/ODT.