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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."

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  1. Re:Am I the Only One... by Knights+who+say+'INT · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It isn't, precisely because it's an inferior version of what is already available.

    It gives people the general idea that open source = inferior.

    While I'm not particularly fond of word processors either, MS Office is a great productivity suite that gets things done in minutes.

    (I love the smell of karma in the morning) It's NOT "wrong" to use proprietary software, specially if data is released to the general public in more open (CSV/RTF/HTML) formats. I mean, time _is_ money, you know.