[Fsfe-uk] Bristol City Council goes open source

[Stuart Yeates]

I'm not sure of the copyright status, so here's a taster of an article I 
just received from the e-government bulletin http://www.headstar.com/egb/

Of course, it's star office not open office, so it's not truly open 
source...

cheers
stuart

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: E-Government Bulletin: 18 October, 2004
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:07:40 +0100
From: Dan Jellinek <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>

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+01: BRISTOL SET FOR BIGGEST UK OPEN SOURCE SWITCH.

The biggest ever switch by a UK local authority away from Microsoft
software to 'StarOffice' desktop solutions based on open source
software is set to take place at Bristol City Council, E-Government
Bulletin has learned.

Bristol is poised to move up to 5,000 of its staff desktop computers to
the StarOffice 7 system early in the New Year, in a move aimed at
saving an estimated 1.4 million pounds over five years. StarOffice
(http://www.staroffice.com) has been developed by Sun Microsystems
as a low-cost alternative to Microsoft Office, and its source code has
been released to form the free software suite OpenOffice
(http://www.openoffice.org).

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