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[News] [Rival] Washington DC Dumps Microsoft Office!!!

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Washington DC latest to drop Microsoft for web apps

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| Washington D.C. has joined 500,000+ businesses and organizations in moving 
| its communication and productivity tools into the cloud. Vivek Kundra, CTO 
| for the District, signed an agreement with Google to migrate the 
| organization's 38,000 employees to Google Apps, the search giant's web-based 
| offering of communication and productivity tools. Washington D.C. is a 
| not-insignificant win for Google, and yet another blow to Microsoft's 
| incumbent Office suite, as a surge of web apps steadily replaces their 
| desktop counterparts.       
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081012-washington-dc-latest-to-drop-microsoft-for-web-apps.html


Recent:

Gameloft Moves 1,000 Desktops to Ubuntu Linux

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| “It’s been a pretty big deployment, well over 1000 desktops and it’s been a
| huge success,” crows the source. “Ubuntu does the same job [as Windows] for
| zero cash. The most painful thing about the change over was moving to
| Thunderbird from Outlook. No one has batted an eyelid about moving to Gnome.”
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/10/03/gameloft-moves-1000-desktops-to-ubuntu-linux/


CEO's Diary: Linux?

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| He has a set a number of practical tests. One was to test transitions to
| Windows Vista or Linux. People resisted both, but one no more than the other.
| So why not Linux?
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| As important, he’s tested Open Office on a trial group. After very little
| effort in translation most could hardly spot the difference from a Microsoft
| product. After all, most people hardly use any of the features in either.
|
| The big issue now is email management. If we can manage that and diary
| scheduling OK (which is a big question) the real issue is when some Linux
| platforms are now very stable and have long term support, why are we
| Microsoft based?
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http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=185613
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