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Finland's Ministry of Justice Goes OpenOffice-ODF
The Finnish Ministry of Justice has decided to install the OpenOffice.org application suite
in all of its 10,000 workstations starting in 2007 and make ODF the standard format for document exchange.
http://www.odfalliance.org/press/Newsletter20061220.pdf

On Thursday the ODF Alliance announced that more than 280 organisations and industry bodies have joined up
to support the format. One of the latest converts is Malaysia, whose official standards body voted this week for ODF.
This should mean that Malaysia's public sector will start using ODF from the end of this year.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000 ... 051,00.htm
http://jakaplan.blogspot.com/2006/04/no ... -open.html

Det skal ikke lenger være nødvendig med programvare fra store, internasjonale dataselskaper
for å få tilgang til elektronisk informasjon fra det offentlige. Regjeringen har besluttet at Fornyings-
og administrasjonsdepartementet skal sette i gang flere nye tiltak for å øke bruken av
såkalte åpne IT-standarder i offentlig sektor.

Til nå har mye informasjon fra det offentlige bare vært mulig å hente inn på PC-en
hvis programmet du bruker er utviklet av et av de store internasjonale IT-selskapene.
http://odin.dep.no/fad/norsk/aktuelt/pr ... ok-bn.html

Extremadura, Spain's poorest region, made headlines following a 2002 decision to migrate about
70,000 desktops and 400 servers in its schools to a locally tailored version of Debian called gnuLinEx.

"The government has estimated that the total cost for the first year of this project was about
190,000 euros (£130,000), and believes it saved 18 million euros overall compared with a Microsoft-based system."
http://www.techworld.com/applications/n ... e=samechan