[NTLUG:Discuss] City of Austin moving 80% of desktops to Open Office

[Steve Baker]

MadHat wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2003, at 12:35 PM, brad angelcyk wrote:
> 
>> OpenOffice.org also runs on Windows.  Still nice to
>> see open source software being used like this.
>>
>> http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.0/index.html
>>
> 
> It also runs on FreeBSD, MacOSX and Solaris, that wasn't the point.

Indeed.  The big picture message here is that for *MANY*
office workers, the only thing that ties them to Windows and
prevents Linux migration is their total reliance on WORD.

Once they are weaned off WORD and onto OpenOffice, there is
hardly any reason to stick with Windows.   The *natural*
move is then to Linux.

This is indeed great news for the Linux community in Texas.

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