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Canada ====== Ontario offers Sun’s StarOffice to students ——————————————- «The Ontario Ministry of Education has acquired Star Office 7 licences from Sun Microsystems Canada for all the province’s 72 public and Catholic school boards, The Star Office productivity suite is being described as part of a movement to deliver superior technology to students while keeping spending in check. It is the largest- StarOffice 7 delivery in North America, with more than 2.5 million students having access to the alternative office suite on Windows. Schools at all levels have chosen the interoperable Star Office suite instead of more expensive office productivity products because they can re-invest saved funds into other projects for students, the ministry stated. StarOffice software is an open-source based, comprehensive office productivity suite that runs on Solaris, Windows and Linux and is compatible with Microsoft Office file formats. The StarOffice suite has an intuitive interface and includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database capabilities.» http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040527.gtsun0527/BNStory/Technology/ Additional reporting: http://news.com.com/StarOffice+scores+Canadian+win/2100-1012_3-5227983.html http://www.cxotoday.com/cxo/jsp/index.jsp?section=News&subsection=Business&subsection_code=1&file=template1.jsp&storyid=1033 http://www.linuxworld.com/story/45166.htm USA === Case Study: Hentzenwerke Publishing switches to Linux —————————————————– «The third function was to determine if we were going to get hung up with exchanging data with outside entities. As with internal data conversion, this step turned out to be a non-issue. OpenOffice.org reads Microsoft Office files with ease, although we’re finding more and more people are sending files in Adobe .PDF format, which is also readable by a variety of open source tools that come standard with popular distributions. And the graphical images that we exchange are also platform-independent.» http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/05/28/1936211.shtml?tid=132&tid=2&tid=82&tid=94 Ireland ======= Sun lands bank deal for Java Desktop System ——————————————- «Sun Microsystems’ Java Desktop System (JDS) is to be deployed on 7,500 desktops throughout Allied Irish Bank’s (AIB) branches. The network will run the Linux-based JDS software, and the deployment includes the migration of branch applications. The roll-out is planned for next year as part of AIB’s New Branch Banking Platform.» http://www.computing.co.uk/News/1156272 http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1618126,00.asp Germany ======= Munich Seeks Bids For Municipal Linux Migration ———————————————– «The city of Munich in Germany will officially kick off its much publicized Linux migration project on July 1 but it remains unclear which vendors will nail the $40 million contract, a spokesman said.» «The project entails the migration of 14,000 desktop and notebook computers from Microsoft Windows and Office software to Linux and OpenOffice.» «In the same press release, the city said it had entered a pilot project with German applications giant SAP to adapt SAP for OpenOffice.» «Meanwhile, Novell announced a major Linux win with another European city even as Munich begins the vendor selection process for its 40,000 seat migration. On Tuesday, Novell’s SUSE Linux subsidiary announced it had landed a contract to migrate the server infrastructure of the largest city in Norway » Bergen — from Unix and Windows servers to a Linux infrastructure based on SUSE Enterprise Server 8 platform. The deal will impact 50,000 users, according to a statement released by SUSE.» http://www.internetwk.com/allStories/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22100148 Additional reporting: http://enterprise-linux-it.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Munich-Scuttles-Windows-for-Linux&story_id=25445&category=opensrc http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/17/munich_embraces_penguin/ http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-06-16-linux-munich_x.htm City of Treuchtlingen ——————— The City of Treuchtlingen is using StarOffice in a Sun Ray ultra-thin client environment. The interesting part of the German article below is the link to an end user survey. According to the survey the users are very happy with the new environment. Here is one sample statement from the survey: «Compared with the former equipment (MS Windows NT4/Novell/Zen 1997-2001) I like the new environment 0% absolutely not 25% similarly well 50% better 16,67% I would like to have it at home, too.» http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2004/6925.html http://www.open-government.org/index.php?id=93 City of Wolfsburg evaluates Linux Desktop —————————————– According to the articles mentioned below the City of Wolfsburg will have 21 employees testing a Linux desktop in parallel to their existing Windows desktop. http://www.pressebox.de/index.php?boxid=20858&sid=searchengine_sid http://www.golem.de/0406/31511.html State Brandenburg interested in open source ——————————————- The article below says that the state Brandenburg is http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/48104 France ====== France looks to open-source in challenge to Microsoft —————————————————– «Civil Service Minister Renaud Dutreil told Reuters that France wants to use open-source software providers to resupply part of the almost 1 million state computers under a government cost-cutting drive designed to trim a bulging public deficit. «The competition is open,» he said. «My estimate is that we can cut the state software bill at least in half.» At stake, in the case of office suite software alone, is about $362.5 million worth of software to be introduced to state computers over three years. Savings on operating systems could be of a similar amount, officials said. » http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,93946,00.html Belgium ======= Successful migration to OOo ————————— Summary of article into English from Dutch: The CIBG (Brussels, Belgium) switched about 100 users to OpenOffice.org for practical reasons rather than the basis of ideology. The migration went smoothly. http://www.cibg.irisnet.be/ci/NL/Supports/Communicatie/Press (Dutch) [Submitted and translated by Arthur Buijs] Hungary ======= Battle of the giants ——————– «COMPUTER giants Sun Microsystems and Microsoft are battling it out for dominance in the Hungarian education sector. On May 4, Sun announced that it had concluded a deal with the Hungarian Education Ministry which would make the application suite StarOffice 7 available for free to staff and students at all of Hungary’s 5,500 schools and 67 higher education institutions. The program has previously operated successfully in other countries, but has only now been introduced in Hungary.» http://www.budapestsun.com/full_story.asp?ArticleId=%7B7DB0F14CAE8349C590672A6DBDC6A5C5%7D&From= India ===== From Microsoft Desktops To Linux Thin Clients ——————————————— «Rajesh Kumar, Business Manager-India, Focuz Infotech (The Linux integrator and support provider for Central Excise Cochin), said, “The fact that Central Excise & Customs – a premier government body in India – has shifted their Microsoft based network to Linux, is the strongest example that supports the new trend of shifting to Open Source from proprietary technology.” » http://www.cxotoday.com/cxo/jsp/showstory.jsp?storyid=1040 Malaysia ======== PC Gemilang: Linux outsells Windows ———————————– » Ten thousand PC Gemilang units were sold in the first few months following the brand’s debut, of which more than 7,000 were Linux-based machines. Pikom said the Linux PC generated the highest demand due to its attractive price. The PC Gemilang project was kicked off in March with two models: A RM988 PC running a Linux-based operating system and bundled with the OpenOffice productivity suite; and a RM1,147 desktop with the Bahasa Malaysia version of the Microsoft Windows XP operating system and Works Suite 2004.» http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/6/23/technology/8282356&sec=technology Australia ========= NSW Roads kicks out Exchange for Sun, deploys Mozilla —————————————————– «The NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) will migrate 1500 users across 120 offices from Microsoft Exchange to Sun’s Java Enterprise System messaging and calendar servers for e-mail and calendaring. As part of the contract, the RTA will also deploy Sun’s Staroffice productivity suite for wordprocessing, spreadsheets and presentation development; the open source Mozilla browser will be used for accessing e-mail and calendar information.» http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;148604439;fp;16;fpid;0 Novell Australia leads global Linux migration, dumps MS Office ————————————————————– «The migration, which will see staff across the globe using SuSE Linux systems running OpenOffice, is partly motivated by broader commercial concerns.» «However, Novell Asia Pacific CIO Sam Gennaoui said that there was also a basic financial argument for the shift. «We are like any other company; we still have ROIs to deliver,» he said.» «Around 90 per cent all of the company’s 350 Asia-Pacific staff, half of whom are based in Australia, have started using OpenOffice as a replacement for Microsoft’s Office suite. Reaction so far has been positive. «There always tends to be some pushback from users, but there’s a sense of willingness to embrace the new technology,» Gennaoui said. The local operation is «way ahead of the movement» in the rest of Novell, he added. «We have a smaller base of users and we’re more flexible.» Novell has also developed a number of custom enhancements to OpenOffice to help migrate common internal document templates. The source code for those enhancements will be made available to the broader OpenOffice community.» http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;526044789;fp;16;fpid;0 Other ===== OpenOffice.org bundled with ‘UKZan Pulsar64’ ——————————————– OpenOffice.org bundled with computers http://www.vnunet.com/products/hardware/1155887]]>

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