Malaysia's Sabah State Government moves to OpenOffice.org too.

In this post, OpenMalaysiaBlog continues to cover Malaysia's various State Governments' steady migration from proprietary office suites to OpenOffice.org.

In this very concise notice, Sabah's State Government has announced that they will be joining the OOo bandwagon! Translated from Malay for our international readers:

"In-line with the directive from the Director of the State Computer Service, the KSIT TSKN (Deputy Chief Secretary of Sabah, IT Support Group) will be installing the OpenOffice.org office suite on all micro computers and notebooks belonging to the State Government of Sabah. Our team requests that all staff will be informed about this installation

For your information, courses on the usage of this application has been prepared by INSAN (Public Sector Training Institute) and the relevant staff from your departments may attend this course."

It then quotes MAMPU's migration to install OOo on all its computers, yes the one with the famous word: "dihapuskan" which literally translated means "eradicate" or "wipe from the face of the earth" with regards to current Microsoft Office installations.

Isn't it amazing how "easy" it is? State after state, from Pahang, Kedah, Melaka and now Sabah. Thats the reality of todays environment. When there is a freely available alternative, which is functionally capable, why spend the money of fancy features which you will not use?

Even if Microsoft Malaysia manages to pull off a USD30 (or RM99) version, state governments will be hardpressed to justify spending any more money then necessary.

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Original notice:

"Selaras dengan arahan Pengarah Jabatan Perkhidmatan Komputer Negeri, pihak KSIT TSKN(D) akan membuat installasi perisian OpenOffice.Org (perisian pejabat) ke atas semua mikrokomputer dan computer Notebook Kerajaan Negeri Sabah. Pihak kami memohon agar kesemua kakitangan dapat dimaklumkan mengenai instalasi perisian ini.

Untuk makluman juga, kursus mengenai penggunaan perisian ini adalah disediakan oleh pihak INSAN dan disarankan agar tuan/puan menghantar kakitangan di jabatan tuan/puan untuk menghadiri kursus ini."

Comments

[John]

Let’s just hope it’s incentive enough for the remainder of the 13(?) states to consider OOo.

Great news yoonkit :)

[paragasu]

for you info, currently, the goverment using the Lotus Office suite. They pay RM 1.2 million for the software license and support