Erwin's StarOffice Tango

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Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing
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Donnerstag Dezember 07, 2006

Update regarding the Dutch cities
I just found this Dutch article which made me understand the Dutch situation a little bit better. Apparently the eight Dutch cities are combining forces in order to put some pressure on their IT partners and IT suppliers, so that they also support open source alternatives. According to the article, several smaller Dutch cities have already adopted open source technologies like OpenOffice.org, but often had to deal with the problems themselves. Apparently, the eight cities want to increase their influence in the IT market and make themselves heard with respect to their open source requirements by closely collaborating together.
As usual, I hope the Dutch/Flemish readers of my blog will correct my statements if I misinterpreted things!
( Dez 07 2006, 12:10:18 PM CET ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

ODF support in Apple tool!?
Interesting! According to this blog entry Apple is adding ODF support to their TextEdit tool.
( Dez 07 2006, 11:52:22 AM CET ) Permalink

Large Dutch cities supporting open source
Arthur Buijs from the Dutch OpenOffice.org community just pointed me to this Dutch article. According to the article, a number of large Dutch cities including Almere, Assen, Eindhoven, Enschede, Groningen, Haarlem, Leeuwarden and Nijmegen have decided to support open source. The article says that the cities are interested in open source because Microsoft software is being perceived as expensive and the software does not not work well together with competitive products on other platforms.
( Dez 07 2006, 11:47:36 AM CET ) Permalink Kommentare [2]