tag:www.majordojo.com,2010://3/tag:www.majordojo.com,2003://3.203- Comments for City Of Austin Migrating To OpenOffice.org A blog about Movable Type, technology, geek-dom, science-fiction and yes, sometimes my personal life. Movable Type 4.261 tag:www.majordojo.com,2003://3.203 2003-12-17T18:23:47Z 2007-01-15T22:33:37Z City Of Austin Migrating To OpenOffice.org An anonymous reader on slashdot wrote "NewsForge.com has a story up this morning about the City of Austin and the results of their pilot program on OpenOffice.org. The bottom line is this: they have found that more than 80% of... Byrne http://www.majordojo.com/ slashdot wrote "NewsForge.com has a story up this morning about the City of Austin and the results of their pilot program on OpenOffice.org. The bottom line is this: they have found that more than 80% of the city's 5K desktops can use OO.o instead of MS Office. Let the migrations begin!" I would just like to give props to my hometown of Austin for leading the charge in this country to migrating government to a cheaper, more secure alternative to proprietary software. Can you image the amount of money our country would save if it utilized free software more widely?]]>