Yamagata Shimbun on Oct. 30th reported, "It was revealed on Oct. 29th that Yamagata prefectural government decided on a plan to adopt OpenOffice.org as next PC office software for fiscal 2011 due to the fact that support for MS Office XP will end in July, 2011".
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lozz
13 years 51 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago
Bad timing
Just when the Free Software Community's about to dump Open Office for the genuinely free Libreoffice.
Still, it's got to be a step up away from total XP slavery.
spanky
13 years 51 weeks 2 days 16 hours ago
Still good
The choice was obviously between openoffice and microsoft office. They chose free software.
Once Libreoffice will be out of beta and more people will learn about it, they will likely migrate over.
Oracle has absolutely destroyed any chances it could have had with oo.o. Nice going.