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Freitag Oktober 26, 2007

About the ODF Adoption in India
I just came across the following:

"For instance, the Department of IT, Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, adopted the open document format (ODF) standard, and as a result has saved around 78 per cent in costs by eliminating the need to purchase proprietary office suites or licenses. This has encouraged other government departments to adopt open standards instead of proprietary softwares.

The high court of Allahabad is another case in point. It moved all its electronic documents to ODF because it felt that it was cost-effective and safe to store its documents in a format which is open and also to carry out any kind of information exchange through open standards. So is the case with the West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu governments.

Even the Election Commission decided to migrate to OpenOffice.org after the elections of May-June 2006.

In terms of license costs, the switch to ODF also means potential savings of 15,000 per license on each of the 2,000 licenses recurring for license upgrades which amounts to Rs 3 crore."

Found here.
( Okt 26 2007, 07:04:35 AM CEST ) Permalink