Migrating a City Government to OpenOffice

[ Thanks to E. Stride for this link. ]

"This is one case study, out of a three-part series, where OpenOffice expert and instructor Solveig Haugland examines the successes and failures of a school, city government and corporate migration from proprietary office suites like Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.

"Dave Richards is an IT administrator for a city government. The city has been using OpenOffice.org for about six years. Dave's a Linux guru, and helps run an elegant, efficient Linux network with a nice big server and lots of fairly old dumb terminals running OpenOffice.org at a very acceptable speed..."

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