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[News] Paraguayan Ranger Police Dumps Microsoft for OpenOffice.org

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Paraguayan Ranger Police Adopts OpenOffice.org

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| My colleague Alexandro Colorado writes: The site from the Ranger police have 
| the statement of OpenOffice.org right on their homepage althought in Spanish, 
| they state the succesful migration and adoption of modern technology with the 
| goal of make their processes more efficient.    
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http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/08/paraguayan-ranger-police-adopts.html

"There's a lot of Linux out there -- much more than Microsoft generally signals
publicly -- and their customers are using it..."

                --Paul DeGroot, a Directions On Microsoft analyst.


Recent:

French hospital migrates to OpenOffice.org

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| According to this French article, the French hospital of Thiers is migrating
| its 150 desktops to OpenOffice.org in order to spend money on training
| instead of licenses.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/french_hospital_migrates_to_openoffice


German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) Deploys StarOffice

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| According to this German article, the German Federal Office for Information
| Security (BSI) is switching to StarOffice for all 500 desktop PCs. 90% of the
| BSI employees have already gone through the migration. Another great success
| story for ODF!
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/german_federal_office_for_information


DE: One fifth of Freiburg city council migrated to OpenOffice

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| In the German city of Freiburg, four hundred  of the two thousand PCs used by
| the city council are now running OpenOffice.
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| The migration to the Open Source suite of office applications is a
| intermediate goal, saving the city up to half a million euro in licence
| costs. The city's final aim is to switch to an Open Source desktop.
|
| The council began its office application migration last July, when it decided
| to use the ISO-approved Open Document Format (ODF) as a document standard.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7538


EU: Europarlement testing Ubuntu, OpenOffice and Firefox

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| The European Parliament's IT department is testing the use of GNU/Linux
| distribution Ubuntu, OpenOffice, Firefox and other Open Source applications,
| the British MEP James Nicholson explained last week in a letter to Italian
| MEP Marco Cappato.  
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7565
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