Congratulations Leif for your efforts and the information you keep feeding the project with. As we talk earlier I would love to see you stepping forward for the MarCon tasks since this is exactly what we need in the MarCon group.
+1 for marcon of Denmark. On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Andy <[email protected]> wrote: > Leif Lodahl wrote: >> >> Just to let you know, we are experiencing a very important breakthrough in >> the municipalities right now. >> >> City of Gribskov has been using OpenOffice for a few years. >> >> City of Tønder has been using OpenOffice in schools for about a year. >> >> City of Lyngby-Taarbæk has decided to use OpenOffice in schools. >> According to the local newspaper this is only the first step towards a >> compete change from MS to OpenOffice in the administration as well. A few >> translated articles on my blog >> >> http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/10/mayor-says-it-is-fully-comparable-with.html. >> Even the Mayor is happy ;-) >> >> Another city close to Copenhagen is about to implement a new version of a >> Case- and Document Handling System, that integrates OpenOffice into it. >> From >> then, more than 90% of new documents will be produced with OpenOffice. >> Expected to be implemented beginning of November this year. (I will talk >> about this case at OOoCon this year). >> >> Besides this, I expect that at least a few more cities will follow this >> trend in the very near future. >> >> Microsoft reactions: >> Microsoft is cutting down the price for Office. >> Poor guys. The only reaction they can think of at the moment is telling >> FUD >> and lies about OpenOffice.org - about how OpenOffice is so old fashioned >> and >> lacks functionality. We are trying to revert the discussion back against >> MS >> claiming that what they call old fashion is what people call a good and >> robust UI. > > Good news for the OpenOffice.org community, bad news for M$. :) > > -- > Andy Brown > La Mesa, CA 91942 > www.the-martin-byrd.net/openoffice.org.html > OpenOffice.org Community Distributor > CD/OEM Distribution Project member > Documentation Project member > Marketing Project member > User Experience Project member > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
