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ComputerWorld Australia: Janome Plunges into OpenOffice

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 8, 2003

“Sewing machine giant Janome has joined the slim ranks of
adventurous Australian companies that have boldly ventured into the
uncharted waters of an open source office suite.

“Janome has migrated some of its PCs away from Microsoft Office
in favour of the free OpenOffice.org office suite saving the
company around $8000 in licence fees, according to IT administrator
Scott Langford…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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