Dutch City Of Haarlem Takes Up OpenOffice.org

zerdood writes "An article in IDA states that Haarlem, the capitol of North Holland, has succeeded in converting 2000 desktops to use OpenOffice.org. They initiated the migration in response to the 500,000 Euro licensing fees paid every year to Microsoft for an upgrade from Office '97. Training people to use OpenOffice.org is projected to cost about one tenth of that. Jan van de Straat, director of R&D for the city, has also stated that they could move up to 20% of the city's desktops to Linux without any problems. Their servers already use Penguin Power."

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A little U2 for OpenOffice

[beemishboy]

Dutch-land, like a Christmas tree Tonight this city belongs to me Angel... Angel of Haarlem