> In my experience, the main cost to adopting F/OSS for office software is interoperability with people sending word and excel files, not support or training.
Couldn't this be handled with WINE or a virtualizer to run Word and Excel?
> Note, LibreOffice is available in the native language of the users, Valencian, and has spell-check dictionaries for that language. Presumably, the Valencian government puts out most communication in Valencian, so there may actually be savings in not having to develop and maintain their own Valencian dictionary for Office, which Microsoft does not provide, and reduced support as the interface uses terms more familiar to the native Valencian speakers.
If they're already in the position of having specialists do translation, or having an entire office that's somewhat bilingual on the computer, running Word and Excel virtualized might not be such a burden comparatively speaking.
Couldn't this be handled with WINE or a virtualizer to run Word and Excel?
> Note, LibreOffice is available in the native language of the users, Valencian, and has spell-check dictionaries for that language. Presumably, the Valencian government puts out most communication in Valencian, so there may actually be savings in not having to develop and maintain their own Valencian dictionary for Office, which Microsoft does not provide, and reduced support as the interface uses terms more familiar to the native Valencian speakers.
If they're already in the position of having specialists do translation, or having an entire office that's somewhat bilingual on the computer, running Word and Excel virtualized might not be such a burden comparatively speaking.