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City Of Austin Migrating To OpenOffice.org

Posted by timothy on from the how-'bout-oo.o-in-the-smf dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NewsForge.com has a story up this morning about the City of Austin and the results of their pilot program on OpenOffice.org. The bottom line is this: they have found that more than 80% of the city's 5K desktops can use OO.o instead of MS Office. Let the migrations begin!"

2 of 456 comments (clear)

  1. Support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I work with local government software. And here is the reality of the users that I have seen. They are about the most moronic people ever, and that is putting it nicely. Most maybe have their GED. Having the ability to call support when these people screw stuff up is invaluable and a real consideration when they sign contracts. I am not talking about email support or online documentation either. I am talking about phone support. I am not aware that open office offers it. They typically want someone they can call up and be told how to fix it.

  2. why, why, WHY by AgentAce · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    WHY must you fucks continue to refer to it as "openoffice.org"

    I absolutely despise when people tack on a TLD to the name of a piece of software, shit, I think I'll just start referring to everything with its associated TLD.

    Hi, I attend Purdue.edu
    Our shitty servers at work run software from Microsoft.com
    My hometown is Aiken.net
    I first attended SC.edu

    yeah, sounds just as stupid as I thought it would