Vietnam will migrate 20,000 of its government office computers to OpenOffice.org, abandoning Microsoft Office in the migration.

“The change from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org is set as a mission in the scheme to computerize operations of Party organs in the 2006-2010 period… Cost savings is only one of the reasons for this change. The major target of the replacement is to improve the ability of the Vietnamese IT circle because the use of open source products like OpenOffice will create a new market for Vietnamese IT companies, according to Mr. Loi.”

Migrations to OpenOffice.org are ever increasing in pace and geographic distribution!

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