Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Erwin's StarOffice Tango
Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing
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Freitag November 24, 2006

More information about Welsh OpenOffice.org
"Alun Pugh, the minister for culture, Welsh language and sport added: "The launch of this office software is a major advance within the IT strategy developed by the Welsh Language Board as part of the Assembly government's strategy for the language, Iaith Pawb."

Speaking at the launch, Ned Thomas, academic director of the Mercator Centre, said that Agored was the result of a convergence of opportunities allowing the funding of a translation project under the Objective 1 programme, which would mean that the Welsh public sector could consider OSS as a commercially viable alternative to proprietary software.

On that note, Gavin Beckett, Bristol city council's IT strategy manager, provided a brief overview of the migration of 5,500 users within the council from Microsoft Office to Sun Microsytems' StarOffice – a move which the council estimates will save 60% on software costs over the next five years."

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