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Gov’t Office to use OpenOffice.Org

by J. Angelo Racoma
written by J. Angelo Racoma

Heard from my friends back at NEDA (where I used to work): their IT department is encouraging everyone to make the switch from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.Org. This is to lighten the financial requirements of having to renew the the Agency’s Microsoft Office 2003 site license. Pretty soon, NEDA ITCS hopes to run the entire office on FOSS, at least in the office/productivity suite realm.

I do hope this activity is sustainable. If successful, then NEDA may serve as a model for government agencies going FOSS. If not with the entire system (including Operating system), then at least we can start with the other–usually more expensive–software packages.

There will undoubdtedly be resistance to this move, especially for those who are unwilling to undertake some adjustments. But as they say, resistance is futile … you will be assimilated!

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J. Angelo Racoma is an economist by profession and IT executive by occupation. He served the Philippine government for three years before moving on to join a leading firm in the local ICT industry. Having a passion for writing since his more youthful days, Angelo has been active in the online community since the time he operated his own Bulletin Board System (the Cyber County BBS) in the mid-1990’s, to actively participating in online tech forums, and now authoring his own blog, the J Spot, which he started late 2003. This personal publisher regularly and frequently posts commentaries on information technology, business, economics, politics and government, public relations, and family matters. A present personal advocacy is to increase local awareness and accessibility to alternative/I.P.-based means of content distribution. Angelo is married to educator Caren Marie Guevara, with whom he has two daughters, Sofia Bernice and Agatha Clarisse.