Bristol City Council Saves with ODF

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"Not a new story, but a little bit more detail about Bristol City Council's move to StarOffice, the non-freebie version of OpenOffice.org:

"Bristol City Council's switch to StarOffice in 2005 has led to a major reduction of IT costs, says Gavin Beckett, the council's ICT Strategy manager.

:StarOffice is Sun Microsystems' proprietary suite of office applications, which is based on the Open Source OpenOffice. In 2006 Bristol took the further step of adopting the ISO-approved Open Document Format..."

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