OpenOffice.org and ODF adoption in Malaysia – thumbs up!
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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That’s excellent news Colin! :-)
After what Microsoft did to Malaysia (bullying and cheating) this is great news.
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Hi Chris, Roy,
This is great news indeed. Now to hope it just goes further and further… First the governments, then the industries…
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can openoffice read/edit msoffice doc’s and vise versa?
thanks
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.