Library stocks up on OpenOffice

Birmingham City Council, England, rolls out open-source software including OpenOffice.org and discovers "These are all powerful applications. What we have is a very stable, very secure desktop ... There has been a very positive user reaction"

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Bristol Switches to StarOffice

Gavin Beckett, Bristol City Council's IT strategy manager, took up the challenge of building a business case to determine whether and how Bristol's 5,500 computers could migrate to an alternative office suite. Open source software had become a prominent option, and Beckett was keen to identify what open source could potentially offer.

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Firm Deploys OpenOffice - Where It Makes Sense

With open-source productivity suites getting better and better, the cost of Microsoft Corp.'s Office is looking higher and higher to FN Manufacturing LLC. FN Manufacturing began testing OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 in 2004 with the hope of mitigating the costsassociated with an enterprisewide upgrade to Microsoft Office 2003. FN Manufacturing's goal was not necessarily to entirely replace Microsoft's Office suite, but to find and deploy a more cost-effective office solution where and when possible.

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Moving to an OpenOffice Culture

OpenOffice offers the entire organization immediate savings. Now that's something everyone can understand. Even with the moderate costs associated with training and support for a new application, Novell calculated it could achieve seven-figure savings just by cutting back on its MS Office licenses as it also streamlined its Windows contracts. Adopting OpenOffice for Windows, with an eye to eventually going all the way with Linux, made that possible.

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OpenOffice.org meets charity's needs - and makes for good business too

When you are a charitable organisation, you need to make every penny count. This case study shows how OpenOffice.org software enabled Migrant Helpline, a UK based charity, to invest in its staff and deliver a better service to clients, while generating useful business for a local company The Burningsuit Consultancy.

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OpenOffice.org software meets finance company's needs for Microsoft Office compatibility and cuts costs

This Case Study shows how OpenOffice.org software helped a small finance company gain a competitive cost advantage over much larger competitors, and helped the IT infrastructure keep up with the rapid growth of the company.

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