On Thursday 16 August 2001 23:17, you wrote: > As read in the PCM I got today: > > - The american department of Defense replaced MS-Office with 25,000 copies > of StarOffice 5.2 (but we already knew that). Reasons: low price, high > reliability, stability and performance. > - A number of governmental offices have inquired with Linux distributors to > investigate how Linux can be implemented as an OS for them. > - The German dept. of finance considers moveing to StarOffice and Sun's > Webtop-system to replace MS-Office. > - A french scientific organisation (unknown which one) is also considering > a similar step. there is about 2 or 3 ministeries already equiped there i think, us french don't only like frogs, we like penguins too.... > > These steps are good for Sun, that is active in Open Source, and promotes > Webtop as a much cheaper alternative than MS's .Net options. > > Paul > > -- > We will either find a way, or make one. > -Hannibal > > http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 > Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.3 > ** http://www.care2.com - when you care ** ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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