[plug] [link] StarOffice scores NSW licence

[Leon Brooks]

Via LinuxToday...

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6428869^15339^^nbv^15306-15321,00.html

    SUN Microsystems is about to sink its hooks deeper into the NSW
    public sector, with the state government tendering for the supply
    of the complete range of Sun software.

    The Sun tender has been matched matched by government wide
    tenders for Citrix software licences and midrange computing
    systems. 

    The NSW Department of Commerce has issued a request for proposals
    to a number of unnamed Sun resellers for the supply of software
    ranging from desktop applications - in the form of Sun's
    StarOffice suite - to networking, collaboration and operating
    system software.

    [...]

    The [NSW] government has still not signed a whole-of-government
    arrangement with Microsoft, despite the two parties having been
    in negotiation for months.

    [...]

    The tender issued calls for system hardware, software and support.
    System software that will be considered includes Windows, Unix and
    Linux as well as VMS and AS400.

Cheers; Leon