French taxman opts for OpenOffice

The Direction Generale des Impots, which manages the taxes of all states and cities in France, plans to deploy the open-source office productivity application OpenOffice.org on thousands of its PCs.

In an interview with ZDNet Australia's sister site ZDNet UK published Wednesday in the UK, Jean-Marie Lapeyre, the chief technical officer at the French tax agency, said it plans to migrate 80,000 desktops from Microsoft Office 97 to OpenOffice.org next year.

The migration is expected to cut the agency's costs by 29.3 million euros, or US$34.5 million, compared with the cost of switching to Office XP. The agency has calculated that it will only take three man-years to be "completely independent" of Microsoft Office, Lapeyre said. It may also consider migrating to Linux desktops in the future, although Lapeyre said this would require much more work.

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