[H-GEN] OpenOffice being pushed in the sub-$1000 PC market

[Arjen Lentz]

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Hi Connor, all,

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 14:08, Cunningham, Conor wrote:
> Off on a slight tangent, but if anyone is interested, Telstra are
> considering moving to Star Office, and employing some form of UNIX/Linux
> as desktop. The desktop thing is only in the trial stage, but Telstra
> just announced to it's employee's, and along with that there was an
> article in the paper in Tuesday's IT Australian regarding this. Telstra
> have paid $14 million US I believe for a three year license for SO, as
> supposed to the approximate, and I stress approximate licensing to M$
> for their office of about $21 Million AUS per annum.

Isn't the Star Office stuff simply part of the deal that Telstra made
with Sun Microsystems for upgrading their (40.000?) desktop machines and
other stuff. It was a tender months ago, with HP and IBM also bidding.
The interesting bit about that was that none of the three were offering
Microsoft solutions, and Microsoft was really miffed.

Anyway, I do think it's good. Please do keep us informed about how
people are liking Star Office within Telstra. It would be a very
positive thing if such a large organisation is able to move over without
too much hassle.


Regards,
Arjen.
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