____/ Matt on Wednesday 28 May 2008 14:11 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) Deploys StarOffice
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>> | According to this German article, the German Federal Office for
>> | Information Security (BSI) is switching to StarOffice for all 500 desktop
>> | PCs. 90% of the BSI employees have already gone through the migration.
>> | Another great success story for ODF!
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>> http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/german_federal_office_for_information
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> It's just the German counterpart of CERT---what could they know? ...
> just 500 desktops out of a billion ... hardly significant ... probably
> not even two minutes worth of revenue for Office ... a drop in the
> bucket ... not worth the salesman's time ... and what does this have to
> do with Linux? ... They won't be able to get along without Windows ...
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> NOT
They establish a system where everyone in government can collaborate using
FLOSS. Munich got together with the foreign office not so long ago. It starts
with governments and then descends to businesses which depend on those at the
top. It's similar in France and Italy but not in the UK (it'll be the last
domino brick to fall, along with the US).
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