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Dutch City Of Haarlem Takes Up OpenOffice.org

Posted by timothy on from the 2000-here-2000-there dept.

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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  1. A little U2 for OpenOffice by beemishboy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

  2. Sad news ... ODB, dead at 35 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Rapper ODB was found dead in his Manhattan studio this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.