FYI: Usage of OpenOffice.org in Vietnam

[Erwin Tenhumberg <Erwin.Tenhumberg@Sun.COM>]

FYI


"Weeks ago, the Ministry of Information and Communication recommended a
list of open software solutions for use in State agencies and the
education sector, comprising Open Office, Thunderbird, Firefox and Unikey.

In the same gesture, the Office of the Vietnam Communist Party has
announced it has replaced Microsoft Office by Open Office, and by the
end of 2008, all 20,000 desktops at Party organs throughout Vietnam will
be installed with Open Office.

Other state agencies like the Department of Post and Telematics of Khanh
Hoa Province, and three departments of Trade, Science and Technology,
and Post and Telematics in HCMC are using Open Office on a trial basis.
After this stage, HCMC agencies will expand the trial use of this open
source software to three more departments and five districts in the
first half of this year.

An official of the HCMC Department of Post and Telematics says that the
trial time shows that Open Office meets the requirements of the department."

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2008/01/762523/



Erwin