2 new moves to OpenDocument Format
Friday, April 7th, 2006Another two organisations chose to migrate to the possible document format of the future.
The City of Bristol Converting to StarOffice
The City of Bristol, UK, a member of the Open Source Academy, is to migrate its about 5,500 desktops from Microsoft Office to Sun Microsystems’ StarOffice 8.0, which features ODF support. After a public TCO analysis (which is meant to help others deciding), the City counts on a 60% savings over a five year period. They use Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect and Microsoft Office, some of with with multiple versions that make the document exchange rather tough now.
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