[Glastonbury] [Fsfe-uk] Bristol City Council goes open source (fwd)

[Martin Wheeler]

Of course, it's star office not open office, so it's not truly open source...

Now ... when do you think the white heat of the technological revolution 
will hit >>Glastonbury's<< town councillors?

2025?

Or significantly later?
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: E-Government Bulletin: 18 October, 2004
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:07:40 +0100
From: Dan Jellinek <dan at headstar.com>
To: <egovbulletin at headstar.com>

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+01: BRISTOL SET FOR BIGGEST UK OPEN SOURCE SWITCH.

The biggest ever switch by a UK local authority away from Microsoft
software to 'StarOffice' desktop solutions based on open source
software is set to take place at Bristol City Council, E-Government
Bulletin has learned.

Bristol is poised to move up to 5,000 of its staff desktop computers to
the StarOffice 7 system early in the New Year, in a move aimed at
saving an estimated 1.4 million pounds over five years. StarOffice
(http://www.staroffice.com) has been developed by Sun Microsystems
as a low-cost alternative to Microsoft Office, and its source code has
been released to form the free software suite OpenOffice
(http://www.openoffice.org).

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