Erwin's StarOffice Tango

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Donnerstag März 08, 2007

German City of Freiburg moving to OpenOffice.org and ODF
According to this German article the German City of Freiburg will deploy OpenOffice.org on 2,000 desktops and expects to save 0.5M Euro over the next two years compared to a migration to Microsoft Office 2007. The City of Freiburg also adopts ODF in order to become vendor and product independent.
( Mrz 08 2007, 09:29:28 PM CET ) Permalink Kommentare [2]

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Wow, great find. Thanks Erwin. As the public sector realizes that ODF and Open Source saves them money they could be spending on other priorities, more will come along.

Gesendet von Zaine Ridling am März 09, 2007 at 04:12 AM CET #

[Trackback] Erwin Tanenbaum reports that another German city is moving to the OpenOffice.org suite. He reports that the switch to OOo will save around a half-million Euros over a two-year period as compared to migrating to Microsoft Office 2007. Given the fact th...

Gesendet von Working @ WebConnectConsulting.com am März 13, 2007 at 11:01 PM CET #

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