Two significant government bodies, the Israel Department of Commerce and the City of Austin, Texas, are moving toward replacing Microsoft Office installations with the OpenOffice.org productivity suite. This continues a worldwide trend of governments attempting to cut costs with open-source software.
The Department of Commerce has made a strategic decision to reduce government dependency on Microsoft, and is to replace most of its Microsoft Office desktops with OpenOffice, according to a report this week in the Israeli business daily Globes. The software is to run on Windows using IBM hardware, the paper said.
Also this week, the City of Austin said it would be migrating several hundred Microsoft Office installations to OpenOffice beginning in January, as part of an ongoing testing programme.
Link: zdnet.co.uk
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