State govt logs on to cost-cutting drive ---------------------------------------- "In the past few months, OpenOffice, a free downloadable package of commonly-used applications like spreadsheets, word processing and email, has become the official choice for thousands of desktops across the state, and is expected to save the exchequer about Rs 90 crore in licence fees. Recently, the Maharashtra police headquarters too plumped for free operating system GNU/Linux with OpenOffice. That's not all. Already, the election office is using a bi-lingual voter-list search system developed by free software activists, while corporate open sourcers like Red Hat are providing software for the government's treasury management, citizens' facility centres and land record management."
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