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ZDNet Australia: Australian Veterans Choose MS Office Over OpenOffice

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 4, 2005

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“The Department of Veteran’s Affairs (DVA) has chosen to upgrade
its ageing Microsoft Office 97 software suite with Office 2003,
shunning a tender that included OpenOffice from open source
software specialist Single Point.

“The DVA enquired about a possible open source alternative to
its Office 97 suite late last year, according to Will Sheridan,
chief executive of Single Point, who said the DVA was having
trouble reading letters and other documents authored in newer
version of Office…”

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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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