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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!"

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  1. Re:There's some history here... by pavs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No kidding. Glad there's someone out there making good decisions about technology. "His vision of the future of IT at the City of Austin is of a hybrid environment: using the right tool for the right job without blind allegience to any platform."

  2. possible motivation by Uma+Thurman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Here's a good reason why Austin might be doing this.

    Austin had a good scare a while back, with rumors of a Microsoft/BSA audit of the city's computers. The BSA is based in Austin, BTW. Anyway, I'm willing to bet that Austin didn't take too kindly to the hassles that Microsoft put them through, and are now happily giving them the boot up their ass.

    Good for them.

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  3. Austin is a Statement by Omega1045 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Living in Austin, I can tell you this is a tech center for the State of Texas and the southwest. I seems like everytime I start talking to some in public, at a store, etc, they are a techie of some sort. There is a huge population of software companies here in Austin, even after the bubble. I think the fact that the City will be switching to Open Office *might* make a statement to the national technology community that Open Source has grown up.

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