[ Thanks to Michael
S. Mimoso for this link. ]
“‘The world is approaching the tipping point for switching over
to open source, including OpenOffice.org.’ Them’s fightin’ words,
and the woman who spoke them–Solveig Haugland–isn’t afraid to
fight against the juggernaut that is Microsoft Office…“Can you name any large corporations that have moved
their desktops from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org or
StarOffice?“Haugland: There are quite a few. Of course,
Sun Microsystems, with approximately 30,000 employees, has been
using StarOffice exclusively for a few years. Ernie Ball Music has
gone totally Linux after their much-publicized break from
Microsoft. The city of Munich is resolutely
OpenOffice.org/StarOffice, even after a visit from Steve Ballmer
and other high-ups at Microsoft. The Australian phone company
bought 89,000 StarOffice seats a few months ago. The U.S.
Department of Defense had 25,000 StarOffice seats, last I
heard…”