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Singapore government deploys OpenOffice.org on 5,000 PCs

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ZDNet UK; By Ingrid Marson
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Singapore's Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) has large-scale plans for deploying OpenOffice.org on Windows PCs, a MINDEF spokeswoman told ZDNet UK on Tuesday. "MINDEF has already installed the OpenOffice productivity suite on 5,000 desktop computers," said the spokeswoman. "We hope to deploy OpenOffice on 20,000 desktop computers by the end of March 2006."

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Comments (2)

Norway schools that are moving to Linux: yes/maybe/when?

This again appeared in this article as a link, but it only talks sites and students, hence, I am assuming no one has any idea how many PC's are potential receipients. Too much noise.

Thread to prior posting

We covered this before but it's not a dupe in the Slashdot sense. Maybe Dave should think about having a mechanism to flag incl. links to prior posting of same story. Maybe some selected people could get access to do this off loading Dave.

I see nothing wrong in posting several stories on the same incident as it gives us a sense of how widespread the coverage is.

This is an excellent example as this "win" for OO.o will go a long way to cut the MS stranglehold on file formats

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