Migrating a City Government to OpenOffice | Linux Today

Migrating a City Government to OpenOffice

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 17, 2007

[ 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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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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