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OpenOffice.org and ODF adoption in Malaysia – thumbs up!

Posted on 27/4/2008, 7:53 pm, by Colin Charles, under General.

In an interesting twist (interesting for Microsoft and their OOXML apologists), about a month ago, MAMPU, the Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit, decided that they were going to go OpenOffice.org and go ODF, and dump Microsoft Office by year-end 2008. This made its round around news sites, and everyone was naturally talking about it.

Now, you can hold them to their word, as they update a Wiki page, informing you about how many agencies are moving to OpenOffice.org. Big wins, once all of the Malaysian government related agencies are on OpenOffice.org (open source software in general). Again, read OpenOffice.org and ODF Adoption!

As a current Malaysian tax payer, I wouldn’t want the government misappropriating money, on proprietary software.

One interesting bit from that? OpenOffice.org being taught in matriculation colleges (11 currently), as lecturers are trained to deliver it to their students. It all starts in schools, though, but this is much better than what was previously around.

Go OpenOffice.org! Go ODF!

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  • http://www.csamuel.org/ Chris Samuel

    That’s excellent news Colin! :-)

  • http://schestowitz.com Roy Schestowitz

    After what Microsoft did to Malaysia (bullying and cheating) this is great news.

  • http://boycottnovell.com/2008/04/28/malaysia-odf-government/ Boycott Novell » Malaysia Turns to OpenDocument Format and Deployments Begin

    [...] Thanks to exceptional transparency of blogs, the story of Malaysia was told and echoed quite widely ever since the country endorsed ODF. Further progress is being made and validation of the facts arrives according to this little new scoop. [...]

  • http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/792 SolidOffice » Blog Archive » OpenOffice.org and ODF Adoption in Malaysia

    [...] Colin Charles notes the government of Malaysia has progressed in its path to OpenOffice and ODF adoption in his post “OpenOffice.org and ODF adoption in Malaysia – thumbs up!” [...]

  • http://www.bytebot.net/ byte

    Hi Chris, Roy,

    This is great news indeed. Now to hope it just goes further and further… First the governments, then the industries…

  • http://www.sinhalenfoss.org/2008/05/podcast-episode-02-%e0%b6%b4%e0%b7%9c%e0%b6%9a%e0%b7%8f%e0%b7%83%e0%b7%8a%e0%b6%a7%e0%b7%8a-%e0%b6%87%e0%b7%83%e0%b7%93%e0%b6%b8-101/ සිංහලෙන් FOSS » Blog Archive » Podcast episode 02 : පොකාස්ට් ඇසීම 101

    [...] Malaysia kicks M$ office: Hugs OpenOffice [...]

  • Kim

    can openoffice read/edit msoffice doc’s and vise versa?

    thanks

  • http://www.csamuel.org/ Chris Samuel

    OpenOffice.org can read most MS Office files, but the other way is hard. That’s not actually an issue as OOo is free and anyone can install and use it.

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