{"id":803,"date":"2008-04-27T19:53:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T00:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/27\/openofficeorg-and-odf-adoption-in-malaysia-thumbs-up"},"modified":"2008-04-27T19:53:17","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T00:53:17","slug":"openofficeorg-and-odf-adoption-in-malaysia-thumbs-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/27\/openofficeorg-and-odf-adoption-in-malaysia-thumbs-up","title":{"rendered":"OpenOffice.org and ODF adoption in Malaysia &#8211; thumbs up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscc.org.my\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=189&amp;amp;Itemid=128\">go OpenOffice.org and go ODF<\/a>, and dump Microsoft Office by year-end 2008. This made its round around news sites, and everyone was naturally talking about it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you can hold them to their word, as they update a <a href=\"http:\/\/knowledge.oscc.org.my\/solution-areas\/desktop\/OpenOffice.org\/openoffice-adoption\">Wiki<\/a> page, informing you about how many <a href=\"http:\/\/knowledge.oscc.org.my\/solution-areas\/desktop\/OpenOffice.org\/openoffice-adoption\">agencies are moving to OpenOffice.org<\/a>. Big wins, once all of the Malaysian government related agencies are on OpenOffice.org (open source software in general). Again, read <b><a href=\"http:\/\/knowledge.oscc.org.my\/solution-areas\/desktop\/OpenOffice.org\/openoffice-adoption\">OpenOffice.org and ODF Adoption<\/a><\/b>!<\/p>\n<p>As a current Malaysian tax payer, I wouldn&#8217;t want the government misappropriating money, on proprietary software. <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Go OpenOffice.org! 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Look at HTTP as a \"standard\" - pre-dating HTTP we had Gopher (and WAIS was our Google), but quite clearly, HTTP won the day. TCP is another good standard. These all have one thing in common: they're open,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1269,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/12\/open-source-saves-malaysian-government-rm40-million","url_meta":{"origin":803,"position":1},"title":"Open Source saves Malaysian Government RM40 million","date":"12\/1\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, Dinesh pointed us out to the fact that MAMPU\/OSCC saves RM40 million with open source. That's about USD$12 million dollars! I quote, from the report: Savings on licensing fee alone by adopting OpenOffice.org have already exceeded RM12 million, which is based on the total installed seats of 12,760 at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;MySQL&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":566,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/09\/openofficeorg-worm-that-affects-windows-linux-and-mac-os-x","url_meta":{"origin":803,"position":2},"title":"OpenOffice.org worm that affects Windows, Linux and Mac OS X","date":"9\/6\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"When it came to an OpenOffice.org related presentation, my slide deck always contained a mention about security. However, as it gains in popularity, and a more bloated (read: MS Office-compatible) feature set, security alone is not going to be a selling point. In fact, when it comes to OSS advocacy,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":753,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/21\/when-adults-act-like-kids-or-how-microsoft-sullys-the-standards-process","url_meta":{"origin":803,"position":3},"title":"When adults act like kids or how Microsoft sullys the standards process","date":"21\/3\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In a mere eight days (March 29, 2008), the vote for the fast-track of ECMA-376 will have to be concluded. In the APAC region, the Participating (\"P\" member countries) countries are Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Korea, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. Back in September 2007, Australia and Malaysia abstained, while\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1821,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2010\/07\/05\/open-source-saves-malaysian-government-rm188-million","url_meta":{"origin":803,"position":4},"title":"Open Source Saves Malaysian Government RM188 Million","date":"5\/7\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in January 2009, we found out that the Malaysian Government had saved about RM40 million using open source. In a little over a year, that number has been topped: over the past six years, the total costs savings are now quoted to be RM188.39 million (USD$58.54 million)! That's a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":214,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/17\/openofficeorg-not-sold-out","url_meta":{"origin":803,"position":5},"title":"OpenOffice.org not sold out","date":"17\/9\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"So a lot of people are worried about Sun selling out OpenOffice.org to Microsoft. Its been creating a lot of noise on the lists, people worrying that as users they're in trouble; developers worrying that by signing the JCA, they're in trouble. Scratch whatever I was going to write, because\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}