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5000 OpenOffice.org Seats for Singapore Government

Posted by timothy on from the just-gimme-a-few-dozen dept.

kurtz_tan writes "This story on Linux World says the Singapore Ministry of Defence (Mindef) has installed the OpenOffice productivity suite on 5,000 new desktop computers. This move is aimed at giving employees in the ministry an additional choice in productivity software. It will also help Mindef make 'significant' savings in terms of capital costs. Singapore is acknowledged as the second best world wide for e-Government. Hope all other world wide government follow suit."

2 of 19 comments (clear)

  1. Why one company switched back to MS Office by jgoemat · · Score: 2, Informative
    A company I worked at decided to switch at least some users to Open Office. Saving $300 * 40 licenses seemed like a good idea. Then someone opened a document from an executive and saw some rather embarrassing comments an executive wrote in MS Word but deleted. Well, MS Word doesn't really delete them, they stay in the document. Open Office displayed them to other people and the executive was none too happy. No more Open Office.

    I imagine this little "bug" was probably intentional on M$'s part...

  2. Re:Who's the best e-gov? by Necroist · · Score: 3, Informative

    THE TOP 10

    1. Canada
    2. Singapore, United States
    4. Australia, Denmark, Finland, Sweden
    8. France
    9. United Kingdom, Netherlands


    According to this news article, Singapore is also the best Asian country in e-government services.