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The latest in what is becoming an impressively long list of Italian cities to make the transition is the City of Udine, a town of 100,000 people in the north east of Italy. The municipality recently announced that by the end of 2014 it will start a process which, over the coming years, will make OpenOffice the default personal productivity suite on each of its 900 computers.
The move, the city says, will allow it to save roughly €400 on the cost of software licensing for each machine, a total of €360,000. The migration will start with 80 new computers that, according to the 2014 budget document, have to be bought by December.
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(Score: 1) by theronb on Thursday September 18 2014, @12:59AM
Employees of corporations who have swallowed the whole MS load can often get MS Office for home really cheap. My former employer (I am now gratefully retired) offered it to us for $20 because of this MS program to keep us all hooked. I declined; money isn't the only price you pay. I've used OO/LO for a number of years now but just started experimenting with Calligra - it looks pretty sweet at first glance.