Chennai Corporation opts for Open Office
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| More than 220 computers are networked at the civic headquarters. Officials
| decided that the licence fee alone would run to a hefty amount and decided to
| switch over to the open source alternative.
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| A senior official said: “We are able to do pretty much all we want — write
| documents, make presentations and maintain ledgers.”
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http://www.thehindu.com/2007/07/17/stories/2007071751210200.htm
Related:
100,000,000 OpenOffice.org fans can't be wrong
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| Simon's official response explained the business rationale behind
| offering support for OpenOffice.org: "OpenOffice.org has becomep
| henomenally successful, Sun alone has shipped more than 70 million
| copies of OpenOffice.org 2.0," he said. "Out there, there
| are maybe 100 million copies of OpenOffice.org. It would be
| senseless to ignore that opportunity."
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/11/100000000_openo.html
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