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[News] Bristol, UK Adopts OpenDocument Format, European Commission Reports

  • Subject: [News] Bristol, UK Adopts OpenDocument Format, European Commission Reports
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:47:36 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
UK: Major cost reduction result of Bristol's switch to Open Standards

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| Bristol City Council's switch to StarOffice in 2005 has led to a major 
| reduction of IT costs, says Gavin Beckett, the council's ICT Strategy 
| manager.  
| 
| StarOffice is Sun Microsystems' proprietary suite of office applications, 
| which is based on the Open Source OpenOffice. In 2006 Bristol took the 
| further step of adopting the ISO-approved Open Document Format (ODF).  
| 
| Speaking at a conference on ODF in the Netherlands last month, Beckett said 
| that implementing StarOffice for 5,500 desktops in Bristol saved 1.1 million 
| GBP (1.4 million euro) in comparison to the total cost of implementing 
| Microsoft Office. "The licences for StarOffice cost us 186,000 GBP (243,000 
| euro), in comparison to 1.4 million GBP (1.8 million euro) for MS Office."    
| 
| These major savings were offset slightly by extra time needed for 
| implementing StarOffice. Implementation cost the city council 484,000 GBP 
| (632,000 euro), double the estimate for MS Office. This was due to document 
| conversion and training, said the IT Strategy manager. Explaining and 
| troubleshooting the new office applications took several months more than 
| planned.     
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7409

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technically more."

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Related:

ODF happening in Berlin

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| This should be a good event to get the pulse on ODF adoption in Europe.
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http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=408


South Africa adopts ODF as govt standard

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| The South African government yesterday announced the adoption of OpenDocument 
| Format (ODF) as a standard for government communications. 
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=$id&src=digg


Netherlands Picks ODF

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| Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Economic Affairs, announced today that ODF will 
| be the standard for reading, publishing and the exchange of information for 
| all governmental organisations. The deadline is January 2009.  
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http://gotze.eu/2007/09/netherlands-picks-odf.html


Malaysia formally embraces open doc format

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| The Malaysian government today announced plans to adopt open standards and 
| the Open Document Format (ODF) within the country's public sector. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| In July this year, Japan became the first country in the Asia-Pacific region 
| to embrace open software standards. Last August, the United Nations urged 
| countries in the region to adopt the ODF.  
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62030781,00.htm


Government of Japan Embraces Open Software Standards

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| The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), the leading organization 
| advocating for openness and accessibility to government documents and 
| information, today congratulated Japan for adopting a policy under which 
| government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors 
| whose products support internationally recognized open standards.    
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http://www.govtech.com/gt/126612?topic=117674


Opendocument_adoption

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| Contents
| 
|     * 1 United States
|           o 1.1 Massachusetts
|                 + 1.1.1 References
|           o 1.2 Other states and organizations in the US
|                 + 1.2.1 References
|     * 2 Europe
|           o 2.1 EU Definition of an open standard
|           o 2.2 United Kingdom
|                 + 2.2.1 Bristol City Council
|           o 2.3 Belgium
|           o 2.4 Finland
|           o 2.5 Slovakia
|     * 3 Other governments
|           o 3.1 Australia
|           o 3.2 India
|           o 3.3 Japan
|           o 3.4 Malaysia
|           o 3.5 Peru
|           o 3.6 Vietnam
|           o 3.7 Other
|     * 4 See also
|     * 5 References
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opendocument_adoption

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