"The Bristol (UK) City Council Thursday made the decision to convert its
5,500 desktops from Microsoft Office to Sun Microsystems's OpenDocument
Format-compliant StarOffice office suite. The city, after extensive study,
concluded that it would save 60 percent of total costs of ownership over a
five-year period by making the switch.
As an assist to other UK cities, it made the documentation of its analysis
and other materials available at the Open Source Academy (OSA) website in
the UK."
...
"Since the Sept. 23 decision by the state of Massachusetts to implement
OpenDocument Format (ODF) by Jan. 1, 2007, the topic has attracted much
international attention.
In January, a group of federal IT managers endorsed Linux for US
government use, and in December, the Swiss government said it plans to
switch 3,000 of its office desktops to Novell SUSE Linux from Unix and
Windows"
Let's the snowball effect begin, giving the current technology landscape
this is an opportunity for international governments to innovate before
the US.
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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